8 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
14181 | Validity is where either the situation or the interpretation blocks true premises and false conclusion [Etchemendy, by Read] |
14180 | Etchemendy says fix the situation and vary the interpretation, or fix interpretations with varying situations [Etchemendy, by Read] |
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] |
4042 | Metaphysics requires the idea of people (speakers) located in space and time [Davidson] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
4041 | Sentences held true determine the meanings of the words they contain [Davidson] |