Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Arthur C. Danto and Willard Quine
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
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If you say that a contradiction is true, you change the meaning of 'not', and so change the subject [Quine]
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To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
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Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine]
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The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine]
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In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]
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