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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Letters to Hegel' and 'Letters to Leibniz 1'

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6 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]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
22073 The basis of philosophy is the Self prior to experience, where it is the essence of freedom [Schelling]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
4039 Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
17009 I won't object if someone shows that gravity consistently arises from the action of matter [Newton]