7 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] |
12251 | Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes] |
20769 | Sphaerus he was not assenting to the presence of pomegranates, but that it was 'reasonable' [Sphaerus, by Diog. Laertius] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
16772 | An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau] |