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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Against Method' and 'Articulating Reasons: Intro to Inferentialism'

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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6601	Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend]

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 / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism

2561	For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty]

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

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

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

7765	The use of a sentence is its commitments and entitlements [Brandom, by Lycan]