7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
11074 | 'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows [Wittgenstein] |
11073 | Two and one making three has the necessity of logical inference [Wittgenstein] |
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] |