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Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Elliott Sober and Mark Colyvan

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

17937	Mathematical generalisation is by extending a system, or by abstracting away from it [Colyvan]
	Full Idea: One type of generalisation in mathematics extends a system to go beyond what is was originally set up for; another kind involves abstracting away from some details in order to capture similarities between different systems.
	From: Mark Colyvan (Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics [2012], 5.2.2)

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

12661	The different types of resemblance don't resemble one another [Fodor]
	Full Idea: The ways in which different kinds of thing are similar to one another aren't, in general, similar to one another.
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (LOT 2 [2008], Ch.5.4)
	A reaction: Nice, but I think one would say that they lack similarity at the level of primary thought, but have obvious similarity (as concept-connectors) at the level of meta-thought.