8 ideas
16415 | Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber] |
16413 | Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
16416 | The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber] |
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] |
11946 | Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects [Popper] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |