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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Properties and Predicates' and '75: Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 2. Need for Properties

8568	A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates

8564	There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

8566	We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism

8565	If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5959	Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8567	Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor]