Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'The Modularity of Mind' and 'On the Elements of Being: I'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

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]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 3. Modularity of Mind

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Mental modules are specialised, automatic, and isolated [Fodor, by Okasha]