7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
20183 | So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen] |
22014 | Consciousness is not entirely representational, because there are pains, and the self [Schulze, by Pinkard] |
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] |
20182 | The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |