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] |
12582 | The function of beliefs is to produce beliefs-that-p when p [Millikan] |
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] |