7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
21982 | I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L] |
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] |
22518 | The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
16566 | Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle] |