6 ideas
| 22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
| 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] |
| 22236 | The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault] |
| 19376 | A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz] |