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All the ideas for 'Tonk, Plonk and Plink', 'Reductive Theories of Modality' and 'On Multiplying Entities'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

9218	Maybe what distinguishes philosophy from science is its pursuit of necessary truths [Sider]

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

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Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap]