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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', '14: Superstition' and 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism'

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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]
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]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22692 A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]
22693 The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]
22694 We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]
22695 We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
5957 Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch]