9 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
14592 | Some abstract things have a beginning and end, so may exist in time (though not space) [Swoyer] |
14594 | Ontologists seek existence and identity conditions, and modal and epistemic status for a thing [Swoyer] |
14595 | Can properties exemplify other properties? [Swoyer] |
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] |
14593 | Quantum field theory suggests that there are, fundamentally, no individual things [Swoyer] |
16756 | Substantial forms must exist, to explain the stability of metals like silver and tin [Albertus Magnus] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |