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All the ideas for 'The Sign of Four', 'On the Elements of Being: I' and 'An Outline of Empiricism'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

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Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Galen, by Frede,M]

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]

14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

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If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]