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All the ideas for 'On Multiplying Entities', 'works' and 'Philosophical Implications of Mathematical logic'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

7081	Philosophy is not separate from or above empirical science [Neurath]

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]

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

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Logic is highly general truths abstracted from reality [Russell, by Glock]

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 / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

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It is good to generalise truths as much as possible [Russell]