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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Occasions of Identity' and 'Internal and External Reasons'

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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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

13437

A CAR and its major PART can become identical, yet seem to have different properties [Gallois]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Gallois is committed to identity with respect to times, and denial of simple identity [Gallois, by Sider]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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Occasional Identity: two objects can be identical at one time, and different at others [Gallois, by Hawley]

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

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

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

9284	Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]