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

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Mental abstraction does not make what is abstracted mind-dependent [Heil]

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]

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

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Only particulars exist, and generality is our mode of presentation [Heil]

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]