Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Peter Geach, Oswald Veblen and Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

19273

I don't have the opinion that people have minds; I just treat them as such [Wittgenstein]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

5663	It is irresponsible to generalise from my own case of pain to other people's [Wittgenstein]

19272

To imagine another's pain by my own, I must imagine a pain I don't feel, by one I do feel [Wittgenstein]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

4161	If a lion could talk, we could not understand him [Wittgenstein]

7392	If a lion could talk, it would be nothing like other lions [Dennett on Wittgenstein]

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

8775	A big flea is a small animal, so 'big' and 'small' cannot be acquired by abstraction [Geach]

8776	We cannot learn relations by abstraction, because their converse must be learned too [Geach]

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

10732

If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach]