Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'The Poetics' and 'The Language of Thought'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

8090	Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

11143

If concept-learning is hypothesis-testing, that needs innate concepts to get started [Fodor, by Margolis/Laurence]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

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Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]