6 ideas
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
19485 | Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine] |
19486 | We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
11911 | Some philosophers always want more from morality; for others, nature is enough [Blackburn] |