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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Contributions of Philosophy (On Appropriation)' and 'Elements of Intuitionism (2nd ed)'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

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When philosophy makes itself intelligible, it commits suicide [Heidegger]

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]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 2. Intuitionist Logic

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Mathematical statements and entities that result from an infinite process must lack a truth-value [Dummett]

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]