Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Peter Geach, Gottfried Leibniz and James Rachels

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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

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Concepts are what unite a proposition [Leibniz]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts

8781	The mind does not lift concepts from experience; it creates them, and then applies them [Geach]

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Concepts are ordered, and show eternal possibilities, deriving from God [Leibniz, by Arthur,R]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / a. Concepts as representations

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Our notions may be formed from concepts, but concepts are formed from things [Leibniz]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities

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For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 5. Concepts and Language / c. Concepts without language

8769	If someone has aphasia but can still play chess, they clearly have concepts [Geach]