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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics' and 'The Scope and Language of Science'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

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Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8463	Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

8461	The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 6. Conceptual Dualism

8462	A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine]