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] |
16639 | Only individual bodies exist [Bacon] |
17555 | 'One' can mean undivided and not a multitude, or it can add measurement, giving number [Aquinas] |
16033 | There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon] |
21950 | Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |