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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds

19273

I don't have the opinion that people have minds; I just treat them as such [Wittgenstein]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

5663	It is irresponsible to generalise from my own case of pain to other people's [Wittgenstein]

19272

To imagine another's pain by my own, I must imagine a pain I don't feel, by one I do feel [Wittgenstein]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy

4161	If a lion could talk, we could not understand him [Wittgenstein]

7392	If a lion could talk, it would be nothing like other lions [Dennett on Wittgenstein]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

9088	Skill comes from a general assumption obtained from thinking about similar things [Aristotle]

16153

Aristotle distinguishes two different sorts of generality - kinds, and properties [Aristotle, by Frede,M]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

9791	Science is more accurate when it is prior and simpler, especially without magnitude or movement [Aristotle]