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] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
1658 | In early Greece the word for punishment was also the word for vengeance [Vlastos] |
17366 | Virtually all modern views of speciation rest on relational rather than intrinsic features [Okasha] |