7 ideas
7822 | A neo-Stoic movement began in the late sixteenth century [Lipsius, by Grayling] |
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] |
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] |