11 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
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] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
4894 | I say Mary does not have new knowledge, but knows an old fact in a new way [Perry on Jackson] |
4895 | Is it unfair that physicalist knowledge can be written down, but dualist knowledge can't be [Perry on Jackson] |
4886 | Mary knows all the physical facts of seeing red, but experiencing it is new knowledge [Jackson] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |