8 ideas
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
5435 | An interpreter of a text, because of wider knowledge, can understand it better than its author [Schleiermacher, by Mautner] |
22028 | Unity emerges from understanding particulars, so understanding is prior to seeing unity [Schleiermacher] |
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] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |