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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Against 'Ostrich Nominalism'' and 'Personal Identity'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

8507	Some think of reality as made of things; I prefer facts or states of affairs [Armstrong]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

8506	Particulars and properties are distinguishable, but too close to speak of a relation [Armstrong]

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

8505	Refusal to explain why different tokens are of the same type is to be an ostrich [Armstrong]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations

3539	Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

1393	One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness

1392	If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self

1391	Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]