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'Events and Their Names', 'works' and 'Identity and Existence in Logic'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
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Do mathematicians use 'existence' differently when they say some entity exists? [Anderson,CA]
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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
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Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
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A logically perfect language could express all truths, so all truths must be logically expressible [Quine, by Hossack]
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We can distinguish 'ontological' from 'existential' commitment, for different kinds of being [Anderson,CA]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates
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Quine says we can expand predicates easily (ideology), but not names (ontology) [Quine, by Noonan]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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For Quine everything exists theoretically, as reference, predication and quantification [Quine, by Benardete,JA]
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