7 ideas
21829 | Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
6550 | Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars] |
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] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
21996 | Freedom only comes when labour is no longer necessary [Marx] |