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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions
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Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Plato, by Goldie]
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Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos on Plato]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
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Abstracted objects are not mental creations, but depend on equivalence between given entities [Hale/Wright]
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One first-order abstraction principle is Frege's definition of 'direction' in terms of parallel lines [Hale/Wright]
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Abstractionism needs existential commitment and uniform truth-conditions [Hale/Wright]
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Equivalence abstraction refers to objects otherwise beyond our grasp [Hale/Wright]
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