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] |
1799 | If we can't know minds, we can't know if Pyrrho was a sceptic [Theodosius, by Diog. Laertius] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
18202 | The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld] |