Ideas from 'On Multiplying Entities' by Willard Quine [1974], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Ways of Paradox and other essays' by Quine,Willard [Harvard 1976,0-674-94837-8]].
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
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In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise
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The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
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Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia
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