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Ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Frege philosophy of mathematics' and 'Review of Aron 'Our Knowledge of Universals''

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

9873	Abstract terms are acceptable as long as we know how they function linguistically [Dummett]

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

10644

A 'felt familiarity' with universals is more primitive than abstraction [Price,HH]

10646

Our understanding of 'dog' or 'house' arises from a repeated experience of concomitances [Price,HH]

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

9993	There is no reason why abstraction by equivalence classes should be called 'logical' [Dummett, by Tait]

9857	We arrive at the concept 'suicide' by comparing 'Cato killed Cato' with 'Brutus killed Brutus' [Dummett]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9833	To abstract from spoons (to get the same number as the forks), the spoons must be indistinguishable too [Dummett]