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All the ideas for 'works', '27: Book of Daniel' and 'On Multiplying Entities'

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6 ideas

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7667	There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

7482	Resurrection developed in Judaism as a response to martyrdoms, in about 160 BCE [Anon (Dan), by Watson]