Combining Texts

All the ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'Notes on Logic' and 'Introduction to 'Properties''

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6 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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / d. Negative facts

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Facts can be both positive and negative [Wittgenstein, by Potter]

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]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5960	When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch]

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

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