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All the ideas for 'Saundaranandakavya', 'Metaphysics: contemporary introduction' and 'What is 'naturalized epistemology'?'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

7910	Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / f. Foundationalism critique

8825	It seems impossible to logically deduce physical knowledge from indubitable sense data [Kim]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7909	The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven

7908	At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha]