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Single Idea 191
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 7. Seeing Resemblance
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Full Idea
Everything resembles everything else up to a point.
Gist of Idea
Everything resembles everything else up to a point
Source
Plato (Protagoras [c.380 BCE], 331d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Protagoras and Meno', ed/tr. Guthrie,W K C [Penguin 1956], p.64
The
12 ideas
with the same theme
[seeing recurrences of properties and structures]:
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191
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Everything resembles everything else up to a point
[Plato]
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17712
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General ideas are the connection by resemblance to some particular
[Hume]
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8544
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Hume does not distinguish real resemblances among degrees of resemblance
[Shoemaker on Hume]
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2210
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A picture of a friend strengthens our idea of him, by resemblance
[Hume]
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15755
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Hume needs a notion which includes degrees of resemblance
[Shoemaker on Hume]
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9081
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We don't recognise comparisons by something in our minds; the concepts result from the comparisons
[Mill]
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5410
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I learn the universal 'resemblance' by seeing two shades of green, and their contrast with red
[Russell]
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16934
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General terms depend on similarities among things
[Quine]
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16938
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To learn yellow by observation, must we be told to look at the colour?
[Quine]
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8486
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Standards of similarity are innate, and the spacing of qualities such as colours can be mapped
[Quine]
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16947
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Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine
[Quine]
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12661
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The different types of resemblance don't resemble one another
[Fodor]
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