Combining Philosophers

Ideas for La Mettrie, B Hale / C Wright and Vassilis Politis

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

7650	All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence

7651	With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie]

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]