Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Archimedes and Willard Quine

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9023	If you say that a contradiction is true, you change the meaning of 'not', and so change the subject [Quine]

6564	To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

8208	In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]

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Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine]

8207	The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine]