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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', '14: Superstition' and 'Truth-maker Realism: response to Gregory'

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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]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation
18470 Maybe truth-making is an unanalysable primitive, but we can specify principles for it [Smith,B]
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]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
5957 Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch]