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] |
18431 | Internal relations combine some tropes into a nucleus, which bears the non-essential tropes [Simons, by Edwards] |
16157 | Insurance on the original ship would hardly be paid out if the plank version was wrecked! [Frede,M] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |