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All the ideas for 'works', 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology' and 'On the Necessity of Origin'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

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Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

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]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object

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Suppose a world where I'm from different gametes; add my gametes; which one is more me? [McGinn]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential

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McGinn falsely claims necessity of origin is a special case of the necessity of identity [Forbes,G on McGinn]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic

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Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine]