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Ideas for Bernard Williams, David Lewis and Wilfrid Sellars
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 2. Propositional Attitudes
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Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions
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Reference to a person's emotions is often essential to understanding their actions [Williams,B]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions
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Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
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Folk psychology makes good predictions, by associating mental states with causal roles [Lewis]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 9. Indexical Thought
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Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought
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Folk psychology doesn't say that there is a language of thought [Lewis]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
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If you don't share an external world with a brain-in-a-vat, then externalism says you don't share any beliefs [Lewis]
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Nothing shows that all content is 'wide', or that wide content has logical priority [Lewis]
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A spontaneous duplicate of you would have your brain states but no experience, so externalism would deny him any beliefs [Lewis]
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Wide content derives from narrow content and relationships with external things [Lewis]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / f. Theory theory of concepts
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The concept of 'green' involves a battery of other concepts [Sellars]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought
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Abstraction is usually explained either by example, or conflation, or abstraction, or negatively [Lewis]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring
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The Way of Abstraction says an incomplete description of a concrete entity is the complete abstraction [Lewis]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 4. Abstracta by Example
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The Way of Example compares donkeys and numbers, but what is the difference, and what are numbers? [Lewis]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 6. Abstracta by Conflation
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Abstracta can be causal: sets can be causes or effects; there can be universal effects; events may be sets [Lewis]
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If abstractions are non-spatial, then both sets and universals seem to have locations [Lewis]
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If universals or tropes are parts of things, then abstraction picks out those parts [Lewis]
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If we can abstract the extrinsic relations and features of objects, abstraction isn't universals or tropes [Lewis]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
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The abstract direction of a line is the equivalence class of it and all lines parallel to it [Lewis]
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For most sets, the concept of equivalence is too artificial to explain abstraction [Lewis]
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Mathematicians abstract by equivalence classes, but that doesn't turn a many into one [Lewis]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
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We can't account for an abstraction as 'from' something if the something doesn't exist [Lewis]
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