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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma' and 'What is Analytic Philosophy?'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis
22334 Analysis must include definitions, search for simples, concept analysis, and Kant's analysis [Glock]
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]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
22332 German and British idealism is not about individual ideas, but the intelligibility of reality [Glock]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / h. Family resemblance
22336 We might say that the family resemblance is just a consequence of meaning-as-use [Glock]
22335 The variety of uses of 'game' may be that it has several meanings, and isn't a single concept [Glock]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
4039 Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation
19045 Translation is too flimsy a notion to support theories of cultural incommensurability [Quine]