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All the ideas for 'What is innate and why', 'Open Society and Its Enemies:Hegel and Marx' and 'On the Reality of Accidents'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism

19382

Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

5451	Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2605	If everything uses mentalese, ALL concepts must be innate! [Putnam]

2606	No machine language can express generalisations [Putnam]