Combining Philosophers

Ideas for PG, John Heil and David M. Armstrong

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

4036	What matters is not how many entities we postulate, but how many kinds of entities [Armstrong, by Mellor/Oliver]

7038	A theory with few fundamental principles might still posit a lot of entities [Heil]

7037	Parsimony does not imply the world is simple, but that our theories should try to be [Heil]