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All the ideas for 'works', 'Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions' and 'Introduction to 'Properties''

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12 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]

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 / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness

24016

Consciousness always transcends itself [Sartre]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

24013

An emotion and its object form a unity, so emotion is a mode of apprehension [Sartre]

24017

Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World [Sartre]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions

24014

Emotions are a sort of bodily incantation which brings a magic to the world [Sartre]

24015

Emotions makes us believe in and live in a new world [Sartre]

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

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

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

20491

States have a monopoly of legitimate violence [Sartre, by Wolff,J]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

16713

Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]