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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Abstraction', 'fragments/reports' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 2: Senses'

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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]

1524	For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception [Empedocles, by Theophrastus]

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]

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

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Only mature minds can distinguish the qualities of a body [Reid]