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Ideas for 'Guide to Ground', 'Absolute Necessities' and 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

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Facts, such as redness and roundness of a ball, can be 'fused' into one fact [Fine,K]

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]