10 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
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] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |