On simple theories of a complex world

By W. Quine. Synthese, 2004

55 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mathematical Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Causation (2005, unknown): “For work on the inter-related questions of reduction, simplicity, and parsimony, see Friedman (1972), Glymour (1980), Hesse (1974), King et al. (1994: 20), Popper (1934/1968), Quine (1966), Sober (1975, 1988).”
• Quantitative Parsimony and Explanatory Power (2003, unknown): “Three of the approaches which Barnes mentions are what he terms the ‘pragmatic justification’, attributed to Quine ([1966]) and to Walsh ([1979]); the ‘unification justification’, attributed to Friedman ([1983]), and the ‘antifree parameters justification’, attributed to Lange ([1995]), and to For”