7 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] |
490 | Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus] |
6003 | Galen showed by experiment that the brain controls the body [Galen, by Hankinson] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
6030 | Each part of the soul has its virtue - pleasure for appetite, success for competition, and rectitude for reason [Galen] |