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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Between Facts and Norms' and 'works'

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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]

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

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

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

15672

Actions norms are only valid if everyone possibly affected is involved in the discourse [Habermas]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

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Courage is not a virtue, but the form of every virtue at its testing point [Lewis,CS]