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'Natural Kinds', 'Words without Objects' and 'Universals'
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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
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'Humility is a virtue' has an abstract noun, but 'water is a liquid' has a generic concrete noun [Laycock]
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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]
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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]
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