15 ideas
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
14329 | Some dispositional properties (such as mental ones) may have no categorical base [Price,HH] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
9032 | Before we can abstract from an instance of violet, we must first recognise it [Price,HH] |
9035 | If judgement of a characteristic is possible, that part of abstraction must be complete [Price,HH] |
9034 | There may be degrees of abstraction which allow recognition by signs, without full concepts [Price,HH] |
9036 | There is pre-verbal sign-based abstraction, as when ice actually looks cold [Price,HH] |
9037 | Intelligent behaviour, even in animals, has something abstract about it [Price,HH] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
9033 | Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process [Price,HH] |
9030 | Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item [Price,HH] |
9029 | If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem [Price,HH] |
9031 | The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances [Price,HH] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |