Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Pierre Gassendi, Robert Fogelin and H.H. Price
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process [Price,HH]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / b. Human rationality
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We are also irrational, with a unique ability to believe in bizarre self-created fictions [Fogelin]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
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We reach concepts by clarification, or by definition, or by habitual experience [Price,HH]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought
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Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item [Price,HH]
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If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem [Price,HH]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
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A 'felt familiarity' with universals is more primitive than abstraction [Price,HH]
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Our understanding of 'dog' or 'house' arises from a repeated experience of concomitances [Price,HH]
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The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances [Price,HH]
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