7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
21559 | We need rules for deciding which norms are predicative (unless none of them are) [Russell] |
21558 | 'Predicative' norms are those which define a class [Russell] |
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] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |