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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Consilience' and 'Fallibilism'

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8 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]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

19701

Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty]

19700

It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty]

19702

We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty]

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 / c. A unified people

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The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts [Wilson,EO]