11 ideas
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
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] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
7752 | Only the utterer's primary intention is relevant to the meaning [Grice] |
7751 | Meaning needs an intention to induce a belief, and a recognition that this is the speaker's intention [Grice] |
7753 | We judge linguistic intentions rather as we judge non-linguistic intentions, so they are alike [Grice] |