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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Introducing Persons' and 'Letters to Thomasius'

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9 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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

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]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]