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All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Letter to Weber' and 'Are Persons Bodies?'

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4 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts

18244

I say the irrational is not the cut itself, but a new creation which corresponds to the cut [Dedekind]

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

3238	'Dead person' isn't a contradiction, so 'person' is somewhat vague [Williams,B]

3239	You can only really love a person as a token, not as a type [Williams,B]

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]