7 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] |
22308 | Only the actual exists, so possibilities always reduce to actuality after full analysis [Russell] |
19518 | Evidentialism says justifications supervene on the available evidence [Conee/Feldman] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
19519 | Rational decisions are either taken to be based on evidence, or to be explained causally [Conee/Feldman] |