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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'works' and 'The Mozi'

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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]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by 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]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

23395

Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule

23394

If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

23396

Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi]

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Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi]