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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Metaphysics: contemporary introduction' and 'A Dictionary of Philosophy'

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10 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

4483	If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

4481	Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux]

4477	Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

4482	Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

4478	Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location

4480	Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

6455	Maybe 'sense-data' just help us to talk about unusual perceptual situations [Lacey]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data

6454	Where do sense-data begin or end? Can they change? What sort of thing are they? [Lacey]

6453	Some claim sense-data are public, and are parts of objects [Lacey]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]