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All the ideas for 'Morality and Art', 'works' and 'The Roots of Reference'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

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 / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

22445

Morality shows murder is wrong, but not what counts as a murder [Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics

22444

A moral system must deal with the dangers and benefits of life [Foot]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value

22447

Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty

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We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone [Foot]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion

22446

In the case of something lacking independence, calling it a human being is a matter of choice [Foot]

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]