12 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
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] |
13197 | The notion of substance is one of the keys to true philosophy [Leibniz] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
13198 | Gravity is within matter because of its structure, and it can be explained. [Leibniz] |