6 ideas
4262 | If the only aim was consistent beliefs then new evidence and experiments would be irrelevant [Goldman] |
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] |
3214 | The models we use in reasoning may be more like perceptions than like language [Johnson-Laird] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |