7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
6408 | Russell needed three extra axioms to reduce maths to logic: infinity, choice and reducibility [Grayling] |
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] |
6414 | Two propositions might seem self-evident, but contradict one another [Grayling] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
3284 | There is no one theory of how to act (or what to believe) [Nagel] |