9 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
6345 | Minimalism is incoherent, as it implies that truth both is and is not a property [Boghossian, by Horwich] |
13365 | Russell's Paradox is a stripped-down version of Cantor's Paradox [Priest,G on Russell] |
10711 | Russell's paradox means we cannot assume that every property is collectivizing [Potter on Russell] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
9127 | Russell refuted Frege's principle that there is a set for each property [Russell, by Sorensen] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
7531 | We don't assert private thoughts; the objects are part of what we assert [Russell] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |