Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Avicenna (Abu Ibn Sina), Jaakko Hintikka and Bertrand Russell

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

5364	It is hard not to believe that speaking humans are expressing thoughts, just as we do ourselves [Russell]

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 / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

5379	If we didn't know our own minds by introspection, we couldn't know that other people have minds [Russell]

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

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It is good to generalise truths as much as possible [Russell]

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

5410	I learn the universal 'resemblance' by seeing two shades of green, and their contrast with red [Russell]