7 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8962 | 'There are shapes which are never exemplified' is the toughest example for nominalists [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8961 | Nominalists are motivated by Ockham's Razor and a distrust of unobservables [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |