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'Parmenides', 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology' and 'Fact, Fiction and Forecast (4th ed)'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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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]
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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]
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