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] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
23261 | A people, not government, creates a constitution, which is essential for legitimacy [Paine] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |