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All the ideas for 'On the Elements of Being: I', 'Things' and 'Phil Applications of Cognitive Science'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

4045	Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count [Goldman]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

4044	Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count [Goldman]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

4048	Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories [Goldman]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

7783	Bodies, properties, relations, events, numbers, sets and propositions are 'things' if they exist [Lowe]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

4043	Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes [Goldman]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

4049	The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable [Goldman]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

4047	Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles [Goldman]