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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'Trees, Terms and Truth' and 'Writings from Late Notebooks'

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind

7131	The intellect and senses are a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind

7152	With protoplasm ½+½=2, so the soul is not an indivisible monad [Nietzsche]

7130	Unity is not in the conscious 'I', but in the organism, which uses the self as a tool [Nietzsche]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness

7155	Consciousness exists to the extent that consciousness is useful [Nietzsche]

7143	Consciousness is a 'tool' - just as the stomach is a tool [Nietzsche]

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

16934

General terms depend on similarities among things [Quine]

16938

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]

16947

Similarity is just interchangeability in the cosmic machine [Quine]