7 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] |
11966 | If there are essential properties, how do you find out what they are? [Chisholm] |
11965 | Could possible Adam gradually transform into Noah, and vice versa? [Chisholm] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
21432 | Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A] |