Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Against the Professors (six books)' and 'On Multiplying Entities'

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10 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]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

6021	It is only when we say a proposition that we speak truly or falsely [Sext.Empiricus]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

6020	'Man is a rational mortal animal' is equivalent to 'if something is a man, that thing is a rational mortal animal' [Sext.Empiricus]

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]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 1. Observation

6026	How can you investigate without some preconception of your object? [Sext.Empiricus]

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

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

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

6032	Right actions, once done, are those with a reasonable justification [Sext.Empiricus]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

1517	The tektraktys (1+2+3+4=10) is the 'fount of ever-flowing nature' [Sext.Empiricus]