10 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] |
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
21094 | There are two kinds of right - to power, and to property [Hume] |
21095 | It is an exaggeration to say that property is the foundation of all government [Hume] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |