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'fragments/reports', 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' and 'Abstract Objects'
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology
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We don't postulate folk psychology, we experience it [Searle]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / b. Turing Machines
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Computation isn't a natural phenomenon, it is a way of seeing phenomena [Searle]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
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Content is much more than just sentence meaning [Searle]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
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There is no such thing as 'wide content' [Searle]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 7. Narrow Content
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We explain behaviour in terms of actual internal representations in the agent [Searle]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
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The Way of Abstraction used to say an abstraction is an idea that was formed by abstracting [Rosen]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
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Nowadays abstractions are defined as non-spatial, causally inert things [Rosen]
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Chess may be abstract, but it has existed in specific space and time [Rosen]
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Sets are said to be abstract and non-spatial, but a set of books can be on a shelf [Rosen]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 6. Abstracta by Conflation
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Conflating abstractions with either sets or universals is a big claim, needing a big defence [Rosen]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
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Functional terms can pick out abstractions by asserting an equivalence relation [Rosen]
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Abstraction by equivalence relationships might prove that a train is an abstract entity [Rosen]
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