Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Immanuel Kant and George Berkeley

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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

5572	Reason has logical and transcendental faculties [Kant]

2869	Kant's only answer as to how synthetic a priori judgements are possible was that we have a 'faculty'! [Nietzsche on Kant]

9346	Judgements which are essentially and strictly universal reveal our faculty of a priori cognition [Kant]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination

22443

We are seldom aware of imagination, but we would have no cognition at all without it [Kant]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

6711	The mind creates abstract ideas by considering qualities separated from their objects [Berkeley]

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I can only combine particulars in imagination; I can't create 'abstract' ideas [Berkeley]

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

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The different types of resemblance don't resemble one another [Fodor]