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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Multiplying Entities' and 'From Stimulus to Science'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

6564	To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]

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 / k. Ethics from nature

6000	The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

5999	The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

6001	Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]