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All the ideas for 'On the Individuation of Attributes', 'Community and Association' and 'Letters'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
18439 Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
18442 You only know an attribute if you know what things have it [Quine]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
18441 No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects
18440 Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
4581 Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
4580 All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
7492 Early societies are based on community, and modern societies on association [Tönnies, by Watson]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
4579 The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
20705 That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume]