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'Function and Concept', 'Human Personality' and 'The Limits of Abstraction'
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts [Weil]
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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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Fine's 'procedural postulationism' uses creative definitions, but avoids abstract ontology [Fine,K, by Cook/Ebert]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
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Many different kinds of mathematical objects can be regarded as forms of abstraction [Fine,K]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
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We can abstract from concepts (e.g. to number) and from objects (e.g. to direction) [Fine,K]
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Fine considers abstraction as reconceptualization, to produce new senses by analysing given senses [Fine,K, by Cook/Ebert]
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Abstractionism can be regarded as an alternative to set theory [Fine,K]
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An object is the abstract of a concept with respect to a relation on concepts [Fine,K]
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