Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Steps Towards a Constructive Nominalism' and 'Self-Reliance'

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3 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

6558	A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds [Emerson]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

17619

We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

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]