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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'Language,Truth and Logic' and 'works'

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / b. Scepticism of other minds

5177	Other minds are 'metaphysical' objects, because I can never observe their experiences [Ayer]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds

5178	A conscious object is by definition one that behaves in a certain way, so behaviour proves consciousness [Ayer]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 7. Seeing Resemblance

16934

General terms depend on similarities among things [Quine]

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To learn yellow by observation, must we be told to look at the colour? [Quine]

8486	Standards of similarity are innate, and the spacing of qualities such as colours can be mapped [Quine]

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Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine]