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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology' and 'Inverted Earth'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

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Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

19485

Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

19486

We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality

6172	The Inverted Earth example shows that phenomenal properties are not representational [Block, by Rowlands]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic

19487

Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]