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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'The Gathas (seventeen hymns)' and 'Critical Common-Sensism'

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9 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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

14798

All communication is vague, and is outside the principle of non-contradiction [Peirce]

14797

Vagueness is a neglected but important part of mathematical thought [Peirce]

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

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

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion

7598	Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets evolved different versions of monotheism [Zoroaster, by Armstrong,K]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 3. Zoroastrianism

7472	Zarathustra was the first to present a god who is an abstract concept [Zoroaster]

20672

Zoroastrianism saw the world as a battle between good evil gods [Zoroaster, by Harari]