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] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
6316 | We translate in a way that makes the largest possible number of statements true [Wilson,NL] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |