Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Survival and Identity, with postscript' and 'Towards a Universal Characteristic'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic

19370

'Blind thought' is reasoning without recognition of the ingredients of the reasoning [Leibniz, by Arthur,R]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 5. Incompleteness

19391

We can assign a characteristic number to every single object [Leibniz]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

19390

Everything is subsumed under number, which is a metaphysical statics of the universe, revealing powers [Leibniz]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

16079

De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]