A Quote by William of Ockham
Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
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Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.
Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.
Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.
Basically I have claimed legal entities for very famous people - they can't even exist - which are Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Warren Edward Buffett. I own the legal entities they're operating under. They know this.
Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
The broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should better balance resources to hold violent criminals fully accountable without imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on nonviolent offenders.
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment - when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.
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