Brumbaugh: Western philosophy grouped into four great families: Platonic, Aristotelian, Democritean (atomistic) and Anaxagorean (process). (..) similarities among the four families: entities running from elements to gods, every entity in one system corresponding to only one entity in each of the other systems, (..) 2x2 scheme: methods: holoscopic (Plato, Anaxagoras) or meroscopic (Aristotle, Democritus) exlanatory direction: formal (Plato, Aristotle) or material (Democritus, Anaxagoras) (..) B sees all other philosophers as victims of the error of overgeneralization |