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'Function and Concept', 'Freedom to Act' and 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)'
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 8. Human Thought
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For Locke, abstract ideas are our main superiority of understanding over animals [Locke, by Berkeley]
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18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
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The word 'idea' covers thinking best, for imaginings, concepts, and basic experiences [Locke]
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Ideas are the objects of understanding when we think [Locke]
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Complex ideas are all resolvable into simple ideas [Locke]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / b. Empirical concepts
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All our ideas derive either from sensation, or from inner reflection [Locke]
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Simple ideas are produced in us by external things, and they match their appearances [Locke]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts
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Innate ideas are nothing, if they are in the mind but we are unaware of them [Locke]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / c. Fregean concepts
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Concepts are the ontological counterparts of predicative expressions [Frege, by George/Velleman]
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An assertion about the concept 'horse' must indirectly speak of an object [Frege, by Hale]
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A concept is a function whose value is always a truth-value [Frege]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / a. Conceptual structure
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Unlike objects, concepts are inherently incomplete [Frege, by George/Velleman]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought
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A species of thing is an abstract idea, and a word is a sign that refers to the idea [Locke]
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