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'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology' and 'Thinking About Logic'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
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Internal questions about abstractions are trivial, and external ones deeply problematic [Carnap, by Szabó]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
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Existence questions are 'internal' (within a framework) or 'external' (concerning the whole framework) [Carnap]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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To be 'real' is to be an element of a system, so we cannot ask reality questions about the system itself [Carnap]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Would a language without vagueness be usable at all? [Read]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
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Supervaluations say there is a cut-off somewhere, but at no particular place [Read]
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A 'supervaluation' gives a proposition consistent truth-value for classical assignments [Read]
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Identities and the Indiscernibility of Identicals don't work with supervaluations [Read]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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A linguistic framework involves commitment to entities, so only commitment to the framework is in question [Carnap]
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