8 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
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] |
7388 | McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn] |
3185 | Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |