Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'A Matter of Principle' and 'works'

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7 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]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

9565	Zermelo made 'set' and 'member' undefined axioms [Zermelo, by Chihara]

3339	For Zermelo's set theory the empty set is zero and the successor of each number is its unit set [Zermelo, by Blackburn]

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]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 4. Taxation

18639

If we assess what people would buy in an imaginary insurance market, our taxes could copy it [Dworkin, by Kymlicka]