11 ideas
22642 | Man has an intense natural interest in the consistency of his own thinking [James] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
15533 | We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis] |
15534 | We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis] |
15532 | 'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis] |
15535 | We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis] |
22641 | Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James] |
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] |
22640 | We find satisfaction in consistency of all of our beliefs, perceptions and mental connections [James] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |