8 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
9465 | Substitutional universal quantification retains truth for substitution of terms of the same type [Jacquette] |
9466 | Nominalists like substitutional quantification to avoid the metaphysics of objects [Jacquette] |
19485 | Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine] |
19486 | We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |