Ideas from 'Thinking and Experience' by H.H. Price [1953], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Thinking and Experience' by Price,H.H. [Hutchinson 1953,]].

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Some dispositional properties (such as mental ones) may have no categorical base

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9032	Before we can abstract from an instance of violet, we must first recognise it

9035	If judgement of a characteristic is possible, that part of abstraction must be complete

9034	There may be degrees of abstraction which allow recognition by signs, without full concepts

9036	There is pre-verbal sign-based abstraction, as when ice actually looks cold

9037	Intelligent behaviour, even in animals, has something abstract about it

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought

9033	Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9030	Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item

9029	If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

9031	The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances