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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'What is Justified Belief?' and 'works'

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

4037	Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

8830	A belief can be justified when the person has forgotten the evidence for it [Goldman]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / b. Pro-externalism

8832	If justified beliefs are well-formed beliefs, then animals and young children have them [Goldman]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

8829	Justification depends on the reliability of its cause, where reliable processes tend to produce truth [Goldman]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection

8831	Introspection is really retrospection; my pain is justified by a brief causal history [Goldman]

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 3. Intentional Stance

3161	If mind is just an explanation, the explainer must have beliefs [Rey on Dennett]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 4. Folk Psychology

3177	You couldn't drive a car without folk psychology [Dennett]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]