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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'Political Liberalism' and 'Notice of Fine's 'Limits of Abstraction''

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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

9141	Abstraction theories build mathematics out of second-order equivalence principles [Cook/Ebert]

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]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

21051

Check your rationality by thinking of your opinion pronounced by the supreme court [Rawls]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / c. Social contract

21119

Power is only legitimate if it is reasonable for free equal citizens to endorse the constitution [Rawls]