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All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'Tractatus de corpore Christi' and 'Ordinatio'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
16676 Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham]
2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity
9355 One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
9103 A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
9104 A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles
16675 Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham]