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All the ideas for 'The Scope and Language of Science', 'Phil Applications of Cognitive Science' and '30: Book of Amos'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

4045	Children may have three innate principles which enable them to learn to count [Goldman]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8463	Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / a. Mathematical empiricism

4044	Rat behaviour reveals a considerable ability to count [Goldman]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 2. Categorisation

4048	Infant brains appear to have inbuilt ontological categories [Goldman]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

8461	The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

4043	Elephants can be correctly identified from as few as three primitive shapes [Goldman]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation

4049	The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable [Goldman]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

4047	Gestalt psychology proposes inbuilt proximity, similarity, smoothness and closure principles [Goldman]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 6. Conceptual Dualism

8462	A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism

7604	Amos was the first prophet to emphasise justice and compassion [Amos, by Armstrong,K]