6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
9355 | One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt] |
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] |
12468 | A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |