8 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] |
15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |
4691 | If all mental life were conscious, we would be unable to see things, or to process speech [McGinn] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
4690 | If meaning is speaker's intentions, it can be reduced to propositional attitudes, and philosophy of mind [McGinn] |