7 ideas
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
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] |
13095 | Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz] |
6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
2117 | The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz] |