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All the ideas for 'Life of Pythagoras', 'Intuitionism' and 'Metaphysics: contemporary introduction'

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11 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / b. Critique of tropes

4483	If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

4481	Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux]

4477	Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

4482	Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

4478	Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location

4480	Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

7260	If there are intuited moral facts, why should we care about them? [Dancy,J]

7261	Internalists say that moral intuitions are motivating; externalist say a desire is also needed [Dancy,J]

7262	Obviously judging an action as wrong gives us a reason not to do it [Dancy,J]

7265	Moral facts are not perceived facts, but perceived reasons for judgements [Dancy,J]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

1515	Pythagoreans believe it is absurd to seek for goodness anywhere except with the gods [Iamblichus]