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Ideas for 'Frege philosophy of mathematics', 'Sources of the Self' and 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

9884	The distinction of concrete/abstract, or actual/non-actual, is a scale, not a dichotomy [Dummett]

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

9869	Realism is just the application of two-valued semantics to sentences [Dummett]

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]