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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', '01: Book of Genesis' and 'Philosophical Essay on Probability'

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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 / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony
7458 The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
3441 If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
4039 Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness
7506 God made man in his own image [Anon (Tor)]
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 5. Reference to Natural Kinds
16782 The names of all the types of creature were given forever by Adam [Anon (Tor)]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
4013 And God saw the light, that it was good [Anon (Tor)]