9 ideas
13099 | Analysing right down to primitive concepts seems beyond our powers [Leibniz] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
5022 | We hold a proposition true if we are ready to follow it, and can't see any objections [Leibniz] |
22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
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] |
18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |