Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Michael Dummett and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
22297 Dummett saw realism as acceptance of bivalence, rather than of mind-independent entities [Dummett, by Potter]
9869 Realism is just the application of two-valued semantics to sentences [Dummett]
15049 Metaphysical realists are committed to all unambiguous statements being true or not true [Dummett]
8184 Philosophers should not presume reality, but only invoke it when language requires it [Dummett]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
8185 We can't make sense of a world not apprehended by a mind [Dummett]
8192 I no longer think what a statement about the past says is just what can justify it [Dummett]
3303 For anti-realists there are no natural distinctions between objects [Dummett, by Benardete,JA]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
8163 Since 'no bird here' and 'no squirrel here' seem the same, we must talk of 'atomic' facts [Dummett]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / c. Facts and truths
8161 We know we can state facts, with true statements [Dummett]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
21628 To say reality itself is vague is not properly intelligible [Dummett]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
8180 'That is red or orange' might be considered true, even though 'that is red' and 'that is orange' were not [Dummett]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment
10281 The objects we recognise the world as containing depends on the structure of our language [Dummett]
10548 The context principle for names rules out a special philosophical sense for 'existence' [Dummett]