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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'poems (frags)' and 'Mental Models'

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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]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 7. Scientific Models

3214	The models we use in reasoning may be more like perceptions than like language [Johnson-Laird]

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

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

3015	The virtue of man is thoughtful foresight of future events [Chilo, by Diog. Laertius]