6 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
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] |
14381 | A statue is essentially the statue, but its lump is not essentially a statue, so statue isn't lump [Yablo, by Rocca] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
22086 | The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |