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Ideas for '(Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics', 'The Metaphysics within Physics' and 'Intro to Naming,Necessity and Natural Kinds'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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Reasoning aims at increasing explanatory coherence [Harman]

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Reason conservatively: stick to your beliefs, and prefer reasoning that preserves most of them [Harman]

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

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If the universe is profligate, the Razor leads us astray [Maudlin]

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The Razor rightly prefers one cause of multiple events to coincidences of causes [Maudlin]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

5831	The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP]