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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy' and 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

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Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

6451	Visual sense data are an inner picture show which represents the world [Blackburn]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

2866	A true belief might be based on a generally reliable process that failed on this occasion [Blackburn]

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

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

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

2864	The main objection to intuitionism in ethics is that intuition is a disguise for prejudice or emotion [Blackburn]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2865	Critics of prescriptivism observe that it is consistent to accept an ethical verdict but refuse to be bound by it [Blackburn]