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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Modes of Extension: comment on Fine' and 'Thinking and Experience'

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

9033	Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process [Price,HH]

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

9030	Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item [Price,HH]

9029	If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem [Price,HH]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

9031	The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances [Price,HH]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

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Any equivalence relation among similar things allows the creation of an abstractum [Simons]

18884

Abstraction is usually seen as producing universals and numbers, but it can do more [Simons]