Combining Texts

Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Logic (Port-Royal Art of Thinking)' and 'Why Medieval Philosophy Matters'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

5 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 7. Animal Minds

1875	Dogs show reason in decisions made by elimination [Chrysippus, by Sext.Empiricus]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

22135

Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter]

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

10499

We know by abstraction because we only understand composite things a part at a time [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P]

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

10501

A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P]

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

10500

No one denies that a line has width, but we can just attend to its length [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P]