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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Keith Donnellan and Timothy Williamson

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes

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To know, believe, hope or fear, one must grasp the thought, but not when you fail to do them [Williamson]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / h. Family resemblance

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'Blue' is not a family resemblance, because all the blues resemble in some respect [Williamson]

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]

8786	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]