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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'The Identity of Indiscernibles'

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4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

10196

The Axiom of Choice needs a criterion of choice [Black]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties

10194

Two things can only be distinguished by a distinct property or a distinct relation [Black]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity

10193

The 'property' of self-identity is uselessly tautological [Black]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

10195

If the universe just held two indiscernibles spheres, that refutes the Identity of Indiscernibles [Black]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]