6 ideas
7536 | If you hope to improve the world, all you can do is improve yourself [Wittgenstein] |
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] |
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] |