9 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
7726 | Aristotelian logic dealt with inferences about concepts, and there were also proposition inferences [Weiner] |
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] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |