8 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] |
12251 | Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes] |
16473 | Modal Rationalism: conceivability gives a priori access to modal truths [Chalmers, by Stalnaker] |
19258 | Evaluate primary possibility from some world, and secondary possibility from this world [Chalmers, by Vaidya] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
16772 | An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau] |