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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'Some Remarks on Essentialism' and 'Cartesian Meditations'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
9123 Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads
21226 Husserl sees the ego as a monad, unifying presence, sense and intentional acts [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
13952 Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
13954 The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
13955 Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity
13953 An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / c. Knowing other minds
21228 Husserl's monads (egos) communicate, through acts of empathy. [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
21225 The psychological ego is worldly, and the pure ego follows transcendental reduction [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]