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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Introducing Persons' and 'Intellectual Autobiography'

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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]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

18901

Truthmakers are facts 'of' a domain, not something 'in' the domain [Sommers]

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 3. Term Logic

18904

'Predicable' terms come in charged pairs, with one the negation of the other [Sommers, by Engelbretsen]

18895

Logic which maps ordinary reasoning must be transparent, and free of variables [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 4. Identity in Logic

18897

Predicate logic has to spell out that its identity relation '=' is an equivalent relation [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

18893

Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

18903

Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 7. Predicates in Logic

18894

Predicates form a hierarchy, from the most general, down to names at the bottom [Sommers]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

18900

Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers]

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]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations

1394	Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own? [Carruthers]

1395	Why would a thought be a member of one bundle rather than another? [Carruthers]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / c. Inadequacy of mental continuity

1396	We identify persons before identifying conscious states [Carruthers]

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

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

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

18898

In standard logic, names are the only way to refer [Sommers]