7 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
6409 | The 'simple theory of types' distinguishes levels among properties [Ramsey, by Grayling] |
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] |
6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
3212 | Beliefs are maps by which we steer [Ramsey] |