6 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] |
14283 | A conditional probability does not measure the probability of the truth of any proposition [Lewis, by Edgington] |
23549 | We treat testimony with a natural trade off of belief and caution [Reid, by Fricker,M] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |