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Ideas for 'Causal Explanation', 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology' and 'Dispositions'

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

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Modest realism says there is a reality; the presumptuous view says we can accurately describe it [Mumford]

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

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Anti-realists deny truth-values to all statements, and say evidence and ontology are inseparable [Mumford]

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]