21 ideas
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
14592 | Some abstract things have a beginning and end, so may exist in time (though not space) [Swoyer] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
14594 | Ontologists seek existence and identity conditions, and modal and epistemic status for a thing [Swoyer] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
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] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |