9 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
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] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
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] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |