Combining Philosophers
Ideas for William W. Tait, Gottfried Leibniz and Fred Dretske
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions
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Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / f. Emotion and reason
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Every feeling is the perception of a truth [Leibniz]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
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By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]
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True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz]
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An idea is an independent inner object, which expresses the qualities of things [Leibniz]
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We must distinguish images from exact defined ideas [Leibniz]
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Thoughts correspond to sensations, but ideas are independent of thoughts [Leibniz]
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The idea of green seems simple, but it must be compounded of the ideas of blue and yellow [Leibniz]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
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The name 'gold' means what we know of gold, and also further facts about it which only others know [Leibniz]
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The word 'gold' means a hidden constitution known to experts, and not just its appearances [Leibniz]
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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]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
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Concepts are ordered, and show eternal possibilities, deriving from God [Leibniz, by Arthur,R]
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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]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
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Abstraction is 'logical' if the sense and truth of the abstraction depend on the concrete [Tait]
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Cantor and Dedekind use abstraction to fix grammar and objects, not to carry out proofs [Tait]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring
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Universals are just abstractions by concealing some of the circumstances [Leibniz]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
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Abstraction may concern the individuation of the set itself, not its elements [Tait]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
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Why should abstraction from two equipollent sets lead to the same set of 'pure units'? [Tait]
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If abstraction produces power sets, their identity should imply identity of the originals [Tait]
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