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The Quinean criterion for existential commitment is that we incur existential commitment precisely by affirming existentially quantified sen...

In an old post , I said that Goodman and Quine can’t define the concept of an infinite number of objects using their logical resources. All...

In the previous post , I showed that Goodman and Quine’s counting method fails for objects that have too much overlap. I think (though the ...

In yesterday’s post , I noted that Goodman and Quine’s nominalist mereological definition of what it is to say that there are more cats tha...

Goodman and Quine have a clever way of saying that there are more cats than dogs without invoking sets, numbers or other abstracta. The tri...