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Ideas for 'The Fixation of Belief', 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' and 'Word and Object'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

6947	Metaphysics does not rest on facts, but on what we are inclined to believe [Peirce]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

6891	Quine's naturalistic and empirical view is based entirely on first-order logic and set theory [Quine, by Mautner]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

6310	Enquiry needs a conceptual scheme, so we should retain the best available [Quine]