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'Metaphysics', 'Method and Results' and 'Lewis: reduction of mind (on himself)'
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
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Folk psychology makes good predictions, by associating mental states with causal roles [Lewis]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / b. Human rationality
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Aristotle sees reason as much more specific than our more everyday concept of it [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / c. Animal rationality
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Animals live by sensations, and some have good memories, but they don't connect experiences [Aristotle]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought
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Folk psychology doesn't say that there is a language of thought [Lewis]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files
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Many memories make up a single experience [Aristotle]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
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Nothing shows that all content is 'wide', or that wide content has logical priority [Lewis]
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If you don't share an external world with a brain-in-a-vat, then externalism says you don't share any beliefs [Lewis]
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A spontaneous duplicate of you would have your brain states but no experience, so externalism would deny him any beliefs [Lewis]
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Wide content derives from narrow content and relationships with external things [Lewis]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / i. Conceptual priority
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It is unclear whether acute angles are prior to right angles, or fingers to men [Aristotle]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring
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Mathematicians study quantity and continuity, and remove the perceptible features of things [Aristotle]
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Mathematicians suppose inseparable aspects to be separable, and study them in isolation [Aristotle]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
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If health happened to be white, the science of health would not study whiteness [Aristotle]
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