8 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] |
4760 | Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson] |
19512 | Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose] |
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] |