8 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
12741 | If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz] |
12740 | The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz] |
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] |
12721 | Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz] |
23803 | States have content if we can predict them well by assuming intentionality [Dennett, by Schulte] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |