6 ideas
21461 | I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views [Lewis] |
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] |
22109 | The fullest knowledge places a conclusion within an accurate theory [Aquinas, by Kretzmann/Stump] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |