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All the ideas for 'The Psychophysical Nexus', 'Some Remarks on Essentialism' and 'Aesthetica'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

4242	Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know [Nagel]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

13952

Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

13954

The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

13955

Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

13953

An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics

8063	Baumgarten founded aesthetics in 1750 [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form

8118	Beauty is an order between parts, and in relation to the whole [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

8117	Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good) [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]