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2939 | If a sign is useless it is meaningless; that is the point of Ockham's maxim [Wittgenstein] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |