7 ideas
19456 | Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions [Feuerbach] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
13745 | Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim] |
13746 | Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim] |
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] |