8 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
19406 | I strongly believe in the actual infinite, which indicates the perfections of its author [Leibniz] |
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] |
6383 | Cause unites our picture of the universe; without it, mental and physical will separate [Davidson] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
6385 | The causally strongest reason may not be the reason the actor judges to be best [Davidson] |
6384 | The notion of cause is essential to acting for reasons, intentions, agency, akrasia, and free will [Davidson] |