13 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
12270 | Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |
3059 | There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5100 | The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus] |
456 | Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus] |