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All the ideas for 'Brainstorms:Essays on Mind and Psychology', 'On Multiplying Entities' and 'Lectures on the Philosophy of (World) History'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
21753 If we look at the world rationally, the world assumes a rational aspect [Hegel]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
21974 The world seems rational to those who look at it rationally [Hegel]
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
8208 In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]
8207 The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [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]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories
3158 Theories of intentionality presuppose rationality, so can't explain it [Dennett]
17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 3. Intentional Stance
3159 Beliefs and desires aren't real; they are prediction techniques [Dennett]