8 ideas
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
13737 | The empiricist says that metaphysics is meaningless, rather than false [Schlick] |
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] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |