8 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] |
14617 | Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker] |
13165 | Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus] |
9569 | The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
14616 | A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker] |