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Ideas for Eubulides, Willard Quine and Denis Diderot

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 1. Ontologies
12210 Quine's ontology is wrong; his question is scientific, and his answer is partly philosophical [Fine,K on Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
18438 Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine]
10243 My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
19042 Terms learned by ostension tend to be vague, because that must be quick and unrefined [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
8496 What actually exists does not, of course, depend on language [Quine]
11101 General terms don't commit us ontologically, but singular terms with substitution do [Quine]
19485 Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine]
10667 A logically perfect language could express all truths, so all truths must be logically expressible [Quine, by Hossack]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers
1610 To be is to be the value of a variable, which amounts to being in the range of reference of a pronoun [Quine]
19486 We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine]
5747 "No entity without identity" - our ontology must contain items with settled identity conditions [Quine, by Melia]
16963 Existence is implied by the quantifiers, not by the constants [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates
16021 Quine says we can expand predicates easily (ideology), but not names (ontology) [Quine, by Noonan]
16964 Theories are committed to objects of which some of its predicates must be true [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
8459 Fictional quantification has no ontology, so we study ontology through scientific theories [Quine, by Orenstein]
8497 An ontology is like a scientific theory; we accept the simplest scheme that fits disorderly experiences [Quine]
4216 Express a theory in first-order predicate logic; its ontology is the types of bound variable needed for truth [Quine, by Lowe]
18966 Ontological commitment of theories only arise if they are classically quantified [Quine]
18964 Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine]
3325 For Quine everything exists theoretically, as reference, predication and quantification [Quine, by Benardete,JA]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
16261 If commitment rests on first-order logic, we obviously lose the ontology concerning predication [Maudlin on Quine]
7698 If to be is to be the value of a variable, we must already know the values available [Jacquette on Quine]
19492 Quine is hopeless circular, deriving ontology from what is literal, and 'literal' from good ontology [Yablo on Quine]
14490 You can be implicitly committed to something without quantifying over it [Thomasson on Quine]