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Ideas for 'On What Grounds What', 'From an Ontological Point of View' and 'Papancasudani'

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
Parsimony does not imply the world is simple, but that our theories should try to be [Heil]
A theory with few fundamental principles might still posit a lot of entities [Heil]
We should not multiply basic entities, but we can have as many derivative entities as we like [Schaffer,J]