Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

From: Flammarion <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:30:10 -0700 (PDT)

On 17 Sep, 14:12, "m.a." <marty....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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> From: "Flammarion" <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden>
> To: "Everything List" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology
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> > On 16 Sep, 21:42, "m.a." <marty....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
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> >> From: "Flammarion" <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden>
> >> To: "Everything List" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:25 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology
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> >> > On 16 Sep, 15:51, "m.a." <marty....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> >> >>  the ocean of virtual particles which may give
> >> >> rise to all "real" particles exists somewhere between matter and
> >> >> thought.
>
> >> > I see no reason to believe that.
>
> >> I would be most interested in your view of vacuum fluctuations of virtual
> >> particles.
>
> > Why would they differ from what he WP article says?
>
> Brent Meeker's interpretation of the WP article seems to agree with my
> description.


that virtual particles might not exist, does not establish that
there is some immaterial thing that does exist.
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