14 ideas
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
6402 | In 1927, Russell analysed force and matter in terms of events [Russell, by Grayling] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
14732 | A perceived physical object is events grouped around a centre [Russell] |
14733 | An object produces the same percepts with or without a substance, so that is irrelevant to science [Russell] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
6418 | Russell rejected phenomenalism because it couldn't account for causal relations [Russell, by Grayling] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
21706 | At first matter is basic and known by sense-data; later Russell says matter is constructed [Russell, by Linsky,B] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |