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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Concepts of supervenience' and 'De Veritate (On Truth)'

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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]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 1. Truth

4748	Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God [Anselm, by Engel]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

3536	Supervenient properties must have matching base properties [Kim]

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]