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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'On Carnap's Views on Ontology' and 'Survival and Identity, with postscript'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

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

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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

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

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]

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

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

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]