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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Why Propositions cannot be concrete' and 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain'

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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]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism

7444	Type-type psychophysical identity is combined with a functional characterisation of pain [Lewis]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

7445	The application of 'pain' to physical states is non-rigid and contingent [Lewis]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability

7443	A theory must be mixed, to cover qualia without behaviour, and behaviour without qualia [Lewis, by PG]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9086	The idea of abstract objects is not ontological; it comes from the epistemological idea of abstraction [Plantinga]

9087	Theists may see abstract objects as really divine thoughts [Plantinga]

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

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

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

9085	If propositions are concrete they don't have to exist, and so they can't be necessary truths [Plantinga]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

9084	Propositions can't just be in brains, because 'there are no human beings' might be true [Plantinga]