Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'On Medical Experience' and 'Structure and Nature'

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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]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]

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]

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

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean

7453	Galen's medicine followed the mean; each illness was balanced by opposite treatment [Galen, by Hacking]