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All the ideas for 'Beitrage', 'Phil Applications of Cognitive Science' and 'Minds, Brains and 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]

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]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room

2427	Maybe understanding doesn't need consciousness, despite what Searle seems to think [Searle, by Chalmers]

7389	A program won't contain understanding if it is small enough to imagine [Dennett on Searle]

7390	If bigger and bigger brain parts can't understand, how can a whole brain? [Dennett on Searle]

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

9145	We form the image of a cardinal number by a double abstraction, from the elements and from their order [Cantor]