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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'De Re and De Dicto' and 'The Trouble with Possible Worlds'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

224	When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites

232	Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

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Maybe Ockham's Razor is a purely aesthetic principle [Lycan]

15784

The Razor seems irrelevant for Meinongians, who allow absolutely everything to exist [Lycan]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

8937	Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato]