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] |
21516 | We want certainty in order achieve secure results for action [Dewey] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
20740 | Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno] |