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Ideas of Arnauld / Nicole, by Text
[French, fl. 1662, Theologians at Port-Royal Abbey, near Paris.]
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1662
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Logic (Port-Royal Art of Thinking)
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I.5
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p.37
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We know by abstraction because we only understand composite things a part at a time
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I.5
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p.38
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A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored
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I.5
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p.38
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10500
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No one denies that a line has width, but we can just attend to its length
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I.5
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p.38
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10502
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We can rise by degrees through abstraction, with higher levels representing more things
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III.18 p240
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p.652
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Forms make things distinct and explain the properties, by pure form, or arrangement of parts
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p.63
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p.9
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We can only know the exterior world via our ideas
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