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] |
20643 | Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
10370 | Causal relata are individuated by coarse spacetime regions [Quine, by Schaffer,J] |