Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Philosophical Culture', 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology' and 'Set Theory and related topics (2nd ed)'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

22153

Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

1489	Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / e. Equivalence classes

8920	Equivalence relations are reflexive, symmetric and transitive, and classify similar objects [Lipschutz]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

19485

Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

19486

We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic

19487

Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine]