6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
4779 | For Kim, events are exemplifications of properties by objects at particular times [Kim, by Psillos] |
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] |
5451 | Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |