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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Natural Kinds' and 'Our Knowledge of the External World'

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds

6416	Other minds seem to exist, because their testimony supports realism about the world [Russell, by Grayling]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 7. Animal Minds

1875	Dogs show reason in decisions made by elimination [Chrysippus, by Sext.Empiricus]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 7. Seeing Resemblance

16934

General terms depend on similarities among things [Quine]

16938

To learn yellow by observation, must we be told to look at the colour? [Quine]

8486	Standards of similarity are innate, and the spacing of qualities such as colours can be mapped [Quine]

16947

Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine]