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Ockham's razor
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Thursday, June 20, 2024
Panomnipsychism
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We have good empirical ways of determining the presence of a significant amount of gold and we also have good empirical ways of determining ...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
The weird view that particles don't survive substantial change
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I have a weird view: when a dog or another substance ceases to exist, all its particles cease to exist, being replaced by new particles with...
Monday, May 10, 2021
Is our universe of sets minimal?
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Our physics is based on the real numbers. Physicists use the real numbers all over the place: quantum mechanics takes place in a complex Hil...
Monday, September 21, 2015
Platonism and Ockham's razor
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One of the main objections against Platonism is that it offends against Ockham's razor by positing a large number of fundamental entitie...
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Friday, January 9, 2015
If you're going to be a Platonist dualist, why not be an idealist?
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Let's try another exercise in philosophical imagination. Suppose Platonism and dualism are true. Then consider a theory on which our...
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Monday, February 24, 2014
"If there are so many, then probably there are more"
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Suppose the police have found one person involved in the JFK assassination. Then simplicity grounds may give us significant reason to th...
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