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Ideas for 'works', 'Philosophy of Mathematics' and 'Identity and Necessity'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / c. Animal rationality

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Aristotle and the Stoics denied rationality to animals, while Platonists affirmed it [Aristotle, by Sorabji]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9611	'Abstract' nowadays means outside space and time, not concrete, not physical [Brown,JR]

9609	The older sense of 'abstract' is where 'redness' or 'group' is abstracted from particulars [Brown,JR]