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All the ideas for 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology', 'The iterative conception of Set' and 'Should a materialist believe in qualia?'

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6 ideas

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

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

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / h. Axiom of Replacement VII

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Do the Replacement Axioms exceed the iterative conception of sets? [Boolos, by Maddy]

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

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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

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

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / a. Nature of qualia

8209	Part of the folk concept of qualia is what makes recognition and comparison possible [Lewis]

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

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