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PREMIUM-Episode 66: Quine on Linguistic Meaning and Science

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Ontology and Meaning in Language

Dylan: We don't want to have significance based on ontology because those are very tightly connected. But that would be separate from whether atoms actually exist, for instance. Having atoms in your physical theory involvesOntological commitments about a whole host of things and whether or not they exist as a different problem,. And so I guess I'm agreeing with you, Mark.

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