6 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] |
7845 | When we need to do something, we depute an inner servant to remind us of it [Proust] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
4677 | If suicide is wrong because only God disposes of our lives, it must also be wrong to save lives [Hume] |