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All the ideas for 'A Defense of Abortion', 'The Actual and the Virtual' and 'Structure and Nature'

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11 ideas

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism
I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson]
The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson]
Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot]
A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson]
Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson]
The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson]
It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson]
No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson]