7 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
8962 | 'There are shapes which are never exemplified' is the toughest example for nominalists [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8961 | Nominalists are motivated by Ockham's Razor and a distrust of unobservables [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
2667 | A false object might give the same presentation as a true one [Arcesilaus, by Cicero] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |