13 ideas
| 8828 | Truth is rational acceptability [Putnam] |
| 18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
| 21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
| 1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
| 18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
| 18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
| 18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
| 18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
| 1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
| 18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
| 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] |
| 18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |