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] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
9103 | A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham] |
22100 | Experienced time means no two mental moments are ever alike [Bergson] |
9104 | A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |