6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
10066 | Putnam coined the term 'if-thenism' [Putnam, by Musgrave] |
18198 | Mathematics is part of science; transfinite mathematics I take as mostly uninterpreted [Quine] |
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] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |