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All the ideas for 'Varieties of Causation', 'Art and Its Objects' and 'Community and Citizenship'

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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
20339 Classes rarely share properties with their members - unlike universals and types [Wollheim]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 4. Objectification
20338 We often treat a type as if it were a sort of token [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
20342 Interpretation is performance for some arts, and critical for all arts [Wollheim]
20343 A love of nature must precede a love of art [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art
20348 A criterion of identity for works of art would be easier than a definition [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
20347 If beauty needs organisation, then totally simple things can't be beautiful [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
20345 Some say art must have verbalisable expression, and others say the opposite! [Wollheim]
20331 It is claimed that the expressive properties of artworks are non-physical [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution
20336 Style can't be seen directly within a work, but appreciation needs a grasp of style [Wollheim]
20337 The traditional view is that knowledge of its genre to essential to appreciating literature [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 7. Ontology of Art
20333 If artworks are not physical objects, they are either ideal entities, or collections of phenomena [Wollheim]
20334 The ideal theory says art is an intuition, shaped by a particular process, and presented in public [Wollheim]
20335 The ideal theory of art neglects both the audience and the medium employed [Wollheim]
20340 A musical performance has virtually the same features as the piece of music [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music
20341 An interpretation adds further properties to the generic piece of music [Wollheim]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 3. Artistic Representation
20332 A drawing only represents Napoleon if the artist intended it to [Wollheim]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 4. Citizenship
22817 Citizenship involves a group of mutually supporting rights, which create community and equality [Miller,D]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 14. Nationalism
22816 Socialists reject nationality as a false source of identity [Miller,D]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
8442 What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
8445 The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]
8444 Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]