Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, Stephen Boulter and H.H. Price

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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

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Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter]

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 [Price,HH]

9035	If judgement of a characteristic is possible, that part of abstraction must be complete [Price,HH]

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

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

9037	Intelligent behaviour, even in animals, has something abstract about it [Price,HH]