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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Language of Thought' and 'Should a materialist believe in qualia?'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia

8209	Part of the folk concept of qualia is what makes recognition and comparison possible [Lewis]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

8090	Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

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If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started [Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]