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'Metaphysics', 'The Elements of Law' and 'A Slim Book about Narrow Content'
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
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Folk psychology is ridiculously dualist in its assumptions [Segal]
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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 / 5. Mental Files
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Many memories make up a single experience [Aristotle]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth
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If 'water' has narrow content, it refers to both H2O and XYZ [Segal]
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Humans are made of H2O, so 'twins' aren't actually feasible [Segal]
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Externalists can't assume old words refer to modern natural kinds [Segal]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
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Concepts can survive a big change in extension [Segal]
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Must we relate to some diamonds to understand them? [Segal]
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Maybe content involves relations to a language community [Segal]
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Externalism can't explain concepts that have no reference [Segal]
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If content is external, so are beliefs and desires [Segal]
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Maybe experts fix content, not ordinary users [Segal]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 7. Narrow Content
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If content is narrow, my perfect twin shares my concepts [Segal]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 10. Causal Semantics
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If thoughts ARE causal, we can't explain how they cause things [Segal]
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Even 'mass' cannot be defined in causal terms [Segal]
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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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