14 ideas
15787 | Maybe Ockham's Razor is a purely aesthetic principle [Lycan] |
15784 | The Razor seems irrelevant for Meinongians, who allow absolutely everything to exist [Lycan] |
18529 | Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept [William of Ockham] |
15792 | Maybe non-existent objects are sets of properties [Lycan] |
16779 | Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects [William of Ockham] |
16757 | Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water [William of Ockham] |
15795 | Treating possible worlds as mental needs more actual mental events [Lycan] |
15796 | Possible worlds must be made of intensional objects like propositions or properties [Lycan] |
15794 | If 'worlds' are sentences, and possibility their consistency, consistency may rely on possibility [Lycan] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
9102 | If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance [William of Ockham] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
9114 | There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience [William of Ockham] |
9115 | To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved [William of Ockham] |