7 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] |
22518 | The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
16566 | Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle] |
23420 | In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good [Rawls] |