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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'Can Mechanisms Replace Laws of Nature?' and 'The German Ideology'

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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness

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'Society determines consciousness' is contradictory; society only exists in minds [Weil on Marx/Engels]

5277	Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life [Marx/Engels]

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

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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]