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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What's Wrong with Rape?' and 'Introduction to 'Properties''

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
4037 Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
4027 Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
4029 Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
4039 Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
468 Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality
20887 A rape disregards the status of being a person - but so does all assault [Foa]
20888 Rape of children is dreadful, but no one thinks children should have a right of consent [Foa]
20889 If men should lust and women shouldn't, that makes rape the prevalent sexual model [Foa]