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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'First Things First' and 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology'

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9 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]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

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Evidentialism is not axiomatic; the evidence itself inclines us towards evidentialism [Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / b. Anti-reliabilism

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If pure guesses were reliable, reliabilists would have to endorse them [Conee]

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More than actual reliability is needed, since I may mistakenly doubt what is reliable [Conee]

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Reliabilism is poor on reflective judgements about hypothetical cases [Conee]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

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

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