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All the ideas for 'The Logical Basis of Metaphysics', 'Treatise 4: The Moral Sense' and 'works'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

6253	Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

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Classical negation is circular, if it relies on knowing negation-conditions from truth-conditions [Dummett]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

6256	Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

6252	Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

6257	You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality

6254	We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson]

6255	Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson]