6 ideas
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
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] |
17555 | 'One' can mean undivided and not a multitude, or it can add measurement, giving number [Aquinas] |
22200 | If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |