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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Mechanism, purpose and explan. exclusion' and 'Intending'

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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]

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation

14470

Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim]

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

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

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

20076

An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20024

Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]