7 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
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] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
7294 | No crime and no punishment without a law [Roman law] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |