Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Explanation: the state of play' and 'On Recent German Literature. Fragments'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

20947

Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

12313

Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford]

12314

Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

12315

We can explain by showing constitution, as well as showing causes [Stanford]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

22489

'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot]