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Ideas for 'Analyzing Modality', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 5: Abstraction' and 'Causal Powers'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought

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We must first conceive things before we can consider them [Reid]

18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth

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What properties a thing must have to be a type of substance can be laid down a priori [Harré/Madden]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

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First we notice and name attributes ('abstracting'); then we notice that subjects share them ('generalising') [Reid]