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'Parmenides', 'Existence and Quantification' and 'Marx'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence
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Philosophers tend to distinguish broad 'being' from narrower 'existence' - but I reject that [Quine]
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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 / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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All we have of general existence is what existential quantifiers express [Quine]
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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 / b. Commitment of quantifiers
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Existence is implied by the quantifiers, not by the constants [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates
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Theories are committed to objects of which some of its predicates must be true [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / d. Commitment of theories
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Express a theory in first-order predicate logic; its ontology is the types of bound variable needed for truth [Quine, by Lowe]
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Ontological commitment of theories only arise if they are classically quantified [Quine]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems
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You can be implicitly committed to something without quantifying over it [Thomasson on Quine]
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
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In formal terms, a category is the range of some style of variables [Quine]
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