7 ideas
2945 | Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer] |
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
2946 | You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer] |
23505 | Aristotelian logic cannot express 'Everyone loves someone' [White,RM] |
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] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |