9 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
10845 | To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis] |
10847 | Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis] |
10846 | Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis] |
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] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |