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Card 6

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What are ontologists typically trying to do?

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Card 7

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What are the candidate categories of things for ontology?

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Card 8

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What is Ockham's Razor?

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Card 9

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What does Ockham's Razor tell us to do?

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Card 10

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What is the translation and interpretation of Ockham's Razor?

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Card 11

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What are the two motivations of Ockham's Razor?

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Card 12

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How do we interpret "beyond necessity"?

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Card 13

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What would be a good reason of accepting entities of a certain kind?

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Card 14

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What is a weak reading of the principle of Ockham's Razor?

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Card 15

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What do we have to be careful of when counting the number of ontological categories?

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