Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On Multiplying Entities', 'Address to the Voters of Bristol' and 'De Natura Corporis'

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6 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]
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]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
12710 As well as extension, bodies contain powers [Leibniz]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
8206 Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / d. Representative democracy
20558 Your representative owes you his judgement, and betrays you if he gives your opinion instead [Burke]