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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Multiplying Entities' and 'Expositio super viii libros'

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9 ideas

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]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8205	Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

8206	Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

9089	Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul [William of Ockham]

9091	Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration [William of Ockham]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

9090	Knowledge is certain cognition of something that is true [William of Ockham]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]