Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Introduction to 'Properties'' and 'Repetition'

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7 ideas

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]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

22094

Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence

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Life is a repetition when what has been now becomes [Kierkegaard]