8 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
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] |
10414 | Abstract objects are constituted by encoded collections of properties [Zalta, by Swoyer] |
10415 | Properties make round squares and round triangles distinct, unlike exemplification [Zalta, by Swoyer] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |