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] |
19590 | Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate [Novalis] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
8409 | Probabilistic causal concepts are widely used in everyday life and in science [Salmon] |