On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:53:23PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 2/19/2014 8:44 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:06:31PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > >>I think we're talking past one another. You're talking about > >>ontology as the ur-stuff that's really real. I'm talking about the > >>stuff that is assumed as fundamental in a theory. > >> > >>Brent > >> > >Yes, to me an ontology is a statement about what's really real. The > >ur-stuff, as you say. > > > >I've never heard of ontology as something that any theory has. > > That's how Quine uses it. >
OK - yet another thing to clarify when I get around to the "MGA revisited" paper, as the step 8 argument definitely refers to the former meaning of ontology, and not the latter (Quine version). Sigh. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
