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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'Ordinatio' and 'talk'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

22519

Philosophers are revealed by their fears [Billington]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

9103	A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

9104	A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham]

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]