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Ideas for 'The Fixation of Belief', 'Animal Rights and Wrongs' and 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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Realism is basic to the scientific method [Peirce]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

6949	If someone doubted reality, they would not actually feel dissatisfaction [Peirce]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

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Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

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We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine]