Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Wang's Paradox' and 'Lectures on the History of Philosophy'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

21757

Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

4037	Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

21628

To say reality itself is vague is not properly intelligible [Dummett]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties

4027	Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

4029	Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

4039	Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]