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Ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason' and 'On Multiplying Entities'

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

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]

2. Reason / E. Argument / 2. Transcendental Argument

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Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner]