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All the ideas for 'works', 'On Mental Entities' and 'Deriving Kripkean Claims with Abstract Objects'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

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Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

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Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism

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Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

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Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]