9 ideas
6855 | Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
6856 | Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M] |
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] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
17093 | Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon] |
17492 | Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |