6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
17751 | Gödel proved the completeness of first order predicate logic in 1930 [Gödel, by Walicki] |
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] |
18436 | Entities are truthmakers for their resemblances, so no extra entities or 'resemblances' are needed [Rodriquez-Pereyra] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |