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Ideas for 'Reply to Professor Marcus', 'Deflating Existential Consequence' and 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

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That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

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If fictional objects really don't exist, then they aren't abstract objects [Azzouni]

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]

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Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni]

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]

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If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

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In the vernacular there is no unequivocal ontological commitment [Azzouni]

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We only get ontology from semantics if we have already smuggled it in [Azzouni]