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'Parmenides', 'Summa Theologicae' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86'
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind
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The mind is a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]
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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought
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Consciousness is our awareness of our own mental life [Nietzsche]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties
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Sensations are transmitted to 'internal senses' in the brain, chiefly to 'phantasia' and 'imagination' [Aquinas, by Kretzmann/Stump]
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Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts [Nietzsche]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination
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Mental activity combines what we sense with imagination of what is not present [Aquinas]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind
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Abstracting A from B generates truth, as long as the connection is not denied [Aquinas]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
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We understand the general nature of things by ignoring individual peculiarities [Aquinas]
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The mind abstracts generalities from images, but also uses images for understanding [Aquinas]
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Very general ideas (being, oneness, potentiality) can be abstracted from thought matter in general [Aquinas]
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Particular instances come first, and (pace Plato) generalisations are abstracted from them [Aquinas]
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Species are abstracted from appearances by ignoring individual conditions [Aquinas]
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving
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The greatest drive of life is to discharge strength, rather than preservation [Nietzsche]
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