Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology' and 'The Correspondence Theory of Truth'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
5 ideas
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
8960
|
Internal questions about abstractions are trivial, and external ones deeply problematic [Carnap, by Szabó]
|
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
3747
|
Events are fast changes which are of interest to us [O'Connor]
|
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
13933
|
Existence questions are 'internal' (within a framework) or 'external' (concerning the whole framework) [Carnap]
|
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
13934
|
To be 'real' is to be an element of a system, so we cannot ask reality questions about the system itself [Carnap]
|
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
13938
|
A linguistic framework involves commitment to entities, so only commitment to the framework is in question [Carnap]
|