Combining Philosophers

Ideas for La Mettrie, Willard Quine and M Fitting/R Mendelsohn

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

7647	The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie]

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

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General terms depend on similarities among things [Quine]

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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]

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Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine]