@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 30 Mar 2024}, author = {Bigelow,John}, subject = {Platonism}, note = {I VII Platonism/Bigelow/Pargetter: Thesis: Bigelow/Pargetter pro Platonism, but a scientific Platonism. I 387 Universals/Realismus/Bigelow/Pargetter: Universal realism allows us to be realists in terms of causation. For this we have to recognize forces as vectors and proportions as causally active. >Universals, >Universals/Bigelow. I 388 Existence/Property/Instantiation/Uninstantiated/Plato/Bigelow/Pargetter: pro: a property does not have to be instantiated to exist. >Instantiation, >Ontology, >Existence. Possible worlds/realism/Bigelow/Pargetter: statistical concluding can be realistically understood if we allow possible worlds. >Possible worlds, >Statistics, >Probability, >Conclusions, >Realism. Chance: we can also realistically analyze objective chances with them, as well as natural necessity in natural laws and its connection with counterfactual conditionals. >Chance. Explanation: can be realistically constructed with possible worlds. >Explanation, >Causal explanation.}, note = { Big I J. Bigelow, R. Pargetter Science and Necessity Cambridge 1990 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=746848} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=746848} }