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Analytics' history of philosophy, 4 versions
Version 1:
1. Some comic stuff from Plato
2. Some comic stuff with good bits in from Aristotle
3. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING till Descartes
4. Locke
5. HUME HUME HUME HUME HUME
6. Different ways of either restating or misstating Hume
Version 1:
1. Some comic stuff from Plato
2. Some comic stuff with good bits in from Aristotle
3. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING till Descartes
4. Locke
5. HUME HUME HUME HUME HUME
6. Different ways of either restating or misstating Hume
Version 2:
1. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING till Frege
2. Different ways of either restating or misstating Frege
1. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING till Frege
2. Different ways of either restating or misstating Frege
Version 3:
1. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING till The Philosophical Papers of David Lewis
2. Different ways of either restating or misstating Lewis
1. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING till The Philosophical Papers of David Lewis
2. Different ways of either restating or misstating Lewis
Version 4:
0. "History of philosophy: just say No"
0. "History of philosophy: just say No"
There's probably a Wittgenstein variant, but a) that might be a marginal case of analytic philosophy and b) you get the idea.
(I am a Version 1 product, in case you care. But then I ruined it all by doing a PhD on Aristotle and Augustine.)
