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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Logical Investigations' and 'Mad Pain and Martian Pain'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology

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Phenomenology is the science of essences - necessary universal structures for art, representation etc. [Husserl, by Polt]

7614	Bracketing subtracts entailments about external reality from beliefs [Husserl, by Putnam]

6893	Phenomenology aims to describe experience directly, rather than by its origins or causes [Husserl, by Mautner]

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]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence

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Husserl says we have intellectual intuitions (of categories), as well as of the senses [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]

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 / 5. Abstracta by Negation

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