8 ideas
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
8732 | It is spooky the way mathematics anticipates physics [Weinberg] |
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] |
16659 | Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi] |
16673 | Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
16663 | Things are limited by the species to certain modes of being [Olivi] |