9 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
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] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
8659 | The gods alone live forever with Shamash. The days of humans are numbered. [Anon (Gilg)] |