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] |
14305 | In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
1451 | Design is seen in the way ideas match the world, in the mechanisms of evolution, and in values [Tennant,FR, by PG] |