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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'Principles of Philosophy' and 'Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations''

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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

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If my conception of pain derives from me, it is a contradiction to speak of another's pain [Malcolm]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness

5014	We can understand thinking occuring without imagination or sensation [Descartes]

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]