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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'Epiphenomenal Qualia' and 'Introduction to 'Properties''

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8 ideas

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

4037	Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / c. Knowledge argument

7880	If a blind persons suddenly sees a kestrel, that doesn't make visual and theoretical kestrels different [Papineau on Jackson]

7378	No one bothers to imagine what it would really be like to have ALL the physical information [Dennett on Jackson]

7377	Mary learns when she sees colour, so her complete physical information had missed something [Jackson]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy

7825	The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]