6 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] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
19398 | Minds are best explained by their ends, and bodies by efficient causes [Leibniz] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |