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All the ideas for 'On the Moral and Legal State of Abortion', 'On the Reality of Accidents' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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3 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism

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Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz]

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

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Persons must be conscious, reasoning, motivated, communicative, self-aware [Warren, by Tuckness/Wolf]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]