Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Novalis, John Perry and David Hume
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 3. Mental Causation
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We try to cause other things to occur by causing mental events to occur [Perry]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness
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Brain states must be in my head, and yet the pain seems to be in my hand [Perry]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought
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It seems plausible that many animals have experiences without knowing about them [Perry]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination
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Memory, senses and understanding are all founded on the imagination [Hume]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation
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Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 7. Seeing Resemblance
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A picture of a friend strengthens our idea of him, by resemblance [Hume]
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Hume needs a notion which includes degrees of resemblance [Shoemaker on Hume]
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General ideas are the connection by resemblance to some particular [Hume]
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Hume does not distinguish real resemblances among degrees of resemblance [Shoemaker on Hume]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 8. Remembering Contiguity
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When I am close to (contiguous with) home, I feel its presence more nearly [Hume]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation
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An object made by a saint is the best way to produce thoughts of him [Hume]
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Our awareness of patterns of causation is too important to be left to slow and uncertain reasoning [Hume]
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