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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'The Problem of Consciousness' and 'Knowing One's Own Mind'

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7 ideas

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 / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism

7388	McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn]

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

3185	Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn]

18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content

6175	External identification doesn't mean external location, as with sunburn [Davidson, by Rowlands]

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

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