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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Quaestiones de Potentia Dei' and 'The New Organon'

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8 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]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

16639

Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

17555

'One' can mean undivided and not a multitude, or it can add measurement, giving number [Aquinas]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

16033

There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

21950

Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

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

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