7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
10355 | Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims [Brandom, by Kusch] |
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] |
7765 | The use of a sentence is its commitments and entitlements [Brandom, by Lycan] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |