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All the ideas for 'Varieties of Causation', 'MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment' and 'There Are No Abstract Objects'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
14596 Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
14597 Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
14598 Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
1490 You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture [Nagel]
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]