6 ideas
9218 | Maybe what distinguishes philosophy from science is its pursuit of necessary truths [Sider] |
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] |
5960 | When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |