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'The Really Hard Problem', 'Metaphysics' and 'Thinking and Experience'
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
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Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind
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Before we can abstract from an instance of violet, we must first recognise it [Price,HH]
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If judgement of a characteristic is possible, that part of abstraction must be complete [Price,HH]
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There may be degrees of abstraction which allow recognition by signs, without full concepts [Price,HH]
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There is pre-verbal sign-based abstraction, as when ice actually looks cold [Price,HH]
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Intelligent behaviour, even in animals, has something abstract about it [Price,HH]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
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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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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation
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Science is more accurate when it is prior and simpler, especially without magnitude or movement [Aristotle]
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