8 ideas
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
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] |
9100 | Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
9101 | Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |