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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Evidentialism' 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]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

8808	Involuntary beliefs can still be evaluated [Feldman/Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

8807	Evidentialism is the view that justification is determined by the quality of the evidence [Feldman/Conee]

8809	Beliefs should fit evidence, and if you ought to believe it, then you are justified [Feldman/Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

8810	If someone rejects good criticism through arrogance, that is irrelevant to whether they have knowledge [Feldman/Conee]

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.]