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] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
22073 | The basis of philosophy is the Self prior to experience, where it is the essence of freedom [Schelling] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |