
PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Problem of Negative Existentials
Quine takes Russell to be making that sort of move with things like there's no Pegasus and there's no Santa Claus. You can somehow make these names of people into properties, he says. Quine: Are you imputing that properties are part of your ontology then? That's a different so quite I'll also be worried about that at some point.
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