Ideas from 'Thinking and Experience' by H.H. Price [1953], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Thinking and Experience' by Price,H.H. [Hutchinson 1953,]].

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Some dispositional properties (such as mental ones) may have no categorical base

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9032	Before we can abstract from an instance of violet, we must first recognise it

9034	There may be degrees of abstraction which allow recognition by signs, without full concepts

9035	If judgement of a characteristic is possible, that part of abstraction must be complete

9036	There is pre-verbal sign-based abstraction, as when ice actually looks cold

9037	Intelligent behaviour, even in animals, has something abstract about it

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought

9033	Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9030	Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item

9029	If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

9031	The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances