6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
22312 | Facts can be both positive and negative [Wittgenstein, by Potter] |
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] |
5960 | When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |