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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 3. Earlier European Philosophy / b. Early medieval philosophy

16137

Earlier views of Aristotle were dominated by 'Categories' [Frede,M]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic

9148	I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

9152	If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K]

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

9149	To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K]

9150	We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9146	After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]