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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'How to be a Liberal' and 'New Essays on Human Understanding'

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 7. Animal Minds
5054 Animal thought is a shadow of reasoning, connecting sequences of images by imagination [Leibniz]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
12944 It is a serious mistake to think that we are aware of all of our perceptions [Leibniz]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
12951 Abstraction attends to the general, not the particular, and involves universal truths [Leibniz]
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]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving
19364 Volition automatically endeavours to move towards what it sees as good (and away from bad) [Leibniz]