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All the ideas for 'How there could be a private language', 'The Trouble with Possible Worlds' and 'The Actual and the Virtual'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

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Maybe Ockham's Razor is a purely aesthetic principle [Lycan]

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The Razor seems irrelevant for Meinongians, who allow absolutely everything to exist [Lycan]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

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Maybe non-existent objects are sets of properties [Lycan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Treating possible worlds as mental needs more actual mental events [Lycan]

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Possible worlds must be made of intensional objects like propositions or properties [Lycan]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / c. Worlds as propositions

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If 'worlds' are sentences, and possibility their consistency, consistency may rely on possibility [Lycan]

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

2604	We must have expressive power BEFORE we learn language [Fodor]