Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'From Stimulus to Science', 'Dion and Theon: an essentialist solution' and 'Logological Fragments II'

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

---

14 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

19588

The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis]

19598

Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

19586

Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

19587

Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

6564	To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics

19597

Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

16235

Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley]

14753

The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

16072

'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

14751

Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

16071

Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

16234

Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley]

13278

Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

14750

Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider]