10 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] |
| 9381 | If some inferences are needed to fix meaning, but we don't know which, they are all relevant [Fodor/Lepore, by Boghossian] |
| 22594 | In 1794 France all individual and legal rights were suppressed by the general will [Dunt] |
| 22602 | Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt] |
| 22596 | No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt] |
| 22603 | Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt] |
| 22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |