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All the ideas for 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology', 'Title, Unity, Authenticity of the 'Categories'' and 'In Praed.'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 3. Earlier European Philosophy / b. Early medieval philosophy

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Earlier views of Aristotle were dominated by 'Categories' [Frede,M]

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]

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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

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Substance is an intrinsic thing, so parts of substances can't also be intrinsic things [Duns Scotus]

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

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