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Ideas for 'works', 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World' and 'On Multiplying Entities'

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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]