6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
15143 | Kind essences are the categorical bases of a thing's causal powers [Bhaskar, by Chakravartty] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
16697 | Time is independent of motion, because God could stop everything for a short or long time [Crathorn, by Pasnau] |