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] |
6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
5957 | Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch] |