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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', '24: Book of Jeremiah' and 'On Multiplying Entities'

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8 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]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

7346	Jeremiah implied a link between weakness and goodness, and the evil of the state [Jeremiah, by Johnson,P]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

22920

Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord [Jeremiah]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

22089

Am I a God afar off, and not a God close at hand? [Jeremiah]