Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Noneism or Allism?' and 'Reality without Reference'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification

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We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

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'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

6387	A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

6391	A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

6388	Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson]

6390	With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description

6389	To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson]