6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
18521 | The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana] |
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] |
9567 | Maths deals with quantities of physical significance, ignoring irrelevant features [Geroch] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |