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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Thinking About Mechanisms' and 'Laws of Nature'

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

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We can abstract by taking an exemplary case and ignoring the detail [Machamer/Darden/Craver]

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

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Idealisation idealises all of a thing's properties, but abstraction leaves some of them out [Harré]