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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'talk' and 'Thinking About Logic'

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

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The mind abstracts ways things might be, which are nonetheless real [Read]

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]