12 ideas
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |