8 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
8386 | Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane] |
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] |
9626 | A structure is an abstraction, focussing on relationships, and ignoring other features [Shapiro] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
8387 | A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane] |
8384 | The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane] |