6 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] |
12185 | Logical necessity is epistemic necessity, which is the old notion of a priori [Edgington, by McFetridge] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
5467 | Euler said nature is instrinsically passive, and minds cause change [Euler, by Ellis] |