6 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] |
16383 | Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke] |
16362 | An identity statement aims at getting the hearer to merge two mental files [Lockwood] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |