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Ideas for 'Conceptions of Truth', 'On Multiplying Entities' and 'Discipline and Punish'

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine]
In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]