6 ideas
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
18438 | Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine] |
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] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
4784 | Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation [Salmon, by Psillos] |