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'Dialektik', 'On What There Is' and 'Of Grammatology'
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
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Quine's ontology is wrong; his question is scientific, and his answer is partly philosophical [Fine,K on Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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What actually exists does not, of course, depend on language [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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To be is to be the value of a variable, which amounts to being in the range of reference of a pronoun [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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Fictional quantification has no ontology, so we study ontology through scientific theories [Quine, by Orenstein]
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An ontology is like a scientific theory; we accept the simplest scheme that fits disorderly experiences [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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If commitment rests on first-order logic, we obviously lose the ontology concerning predication [Maudlin on Quine]
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If to be is to be the value of a variable, we must already know the values available [Jacquette on Quine]
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