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Ideas for 'The Really Hard Problem', 'Philosophical Investigations' and 'Mental Acts: their content and their objects'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 10. Rule Following
4158 An 'inner process' stands in need of outward criteria [Wittgenstein]
6165 Every course of action can either accord or conflict with a rule, so there is no accord or conflict [Wittgenstein]
4143 One cannot obey a rule 'privately', because that is a practice, not the same as thinking one is obeying [Wittgenstein]
7092 If individuals can't tell if they are following a rule, how does a community do it? [Grayling on Wittgenstein]
18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content
4138 Is white simple, or does it consist of the colours of the rainbow? [Wittgenstein]
7055 Externalist accounts of mental content begin in Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Heil]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
8781 The mind does not lift concepts from experience; it creates them, and then applies them [Geach]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / b. Concepts as abilities
12576 Possessing a concept is knowing how to go on [Wittgenstein, by Peacocke]
4157 Concepts direct our interests and investigations, and express those interests [Wittgenstein]
12606 Man learns the concept of the past by remembering [Wittgenstein]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / h. Family resemblance
4141 Various games have a 'family resemblance', as their similarities overlap and criss-cross [Wittgenstein]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 5. Concepts and Language / c. Concepts without language
8769 If someone has aphasia but can still play chess, they clearly have concepts [Geach]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring
8770 'Abstractionism' is acquiring a concept by picking out one experience amongst a group [Geach]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique
8771 'Or' and 'not' are not to be found in the sensible world, or even in the world of inner experience [Geach]
8772 We can't acquire number-concepts by extracting the number from the things being counted [Geach]
8773 Abstractionists can't explain counting, because it must precede experience of objects [Geach]
8774 The numbers don't exist in nature, so they cannot have been abstracted from there into our languages [Geach]
8778 Blind people can use colour words like 'red' perfectly intelligently [Geach]
8777 If 'black' and 'cat' can be used in the absence of such objects, how can such usage be abstracted? [Geach]
8779 We can form two different abstract concepts that apply to a single unified experience [Geach]