12 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
17809 | Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel] |
17810 | The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel] |
13795 | Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder] |
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] |
13798 | Maybe we should give up the statue [Elder] |
13797 | The loss of an essential property means the end of an existence [Elder] |
13794 | Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages [Elder] |
13796 | Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together [Elder] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
17811 | The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel] |