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All the ideas for 'Summa totius logicae', 'Centring' and 'The Unimportance of Identity'

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25 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
9108 From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham]
2. Reason / E. Argument / 7. Thought Experiments
5515 Imaginary cases are good for revealing our beliefs, rather than the truth [Parfit]
3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
9107 A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham]
3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth
16300 Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification
9106 The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham]
6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 5. Numbers as Adjectival
9113 Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being
9110 The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
8228 Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
5516 Reduction can be by identity, or constitution, or elimination [Parfit, by PG]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
15388 Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
9109 If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / a. Other minds
8232 Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 1. Identity and the Self
5514 Psychologists are interested in identity as a type of person, but philosophers study numerical identity [Parfit]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity
5521 If my brain-halves are transplanted into two bodies, I have continuity, and don't need identity [Parfit]
5522 Over a period of time what matters is not that 'I' persist, but that I have psychological continuity [Parfit]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness
5519 It is fine to save two dying twins by merging parts of their bodies into one, and identity is irrelevant [Parfit]
5520 If two humans are merged surgically, the new identity is a purely verbal problem [Parfit]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
5518 It doesn't matter whether I exist with half my components replaced (any more than an audio system) [Parfit]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
9105 Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham]
20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
8230 Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
8234 Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)]
29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 4. Zen Buddhism
8227 Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)]
8229 The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)]
8231 Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
8233 Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)]