15 ideas
5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
14329 | Some dispositional properties (such as mental ones) may have no categorical base [Price,HH] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
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] |
5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
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] |
3284 | There is no one theory of how to act (or what to believe) [Nagel] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |