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] |
12812 | Things have real essences, but we categorise them according to the ideas we receive [Locke] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
4398 | An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos] |