Saturday, January 31, 2009

Wordle




Here's a word cloud of my paper I just defended. The paper is called "Quantifier Expressions and Quinian Metaontology". Willard van Orman Quine was a bigshot Harvard philosopher for a large part of the 20th Century. Quinian metaontology is his views about the language and practice of ontology (ontology is a group of questions about what things exist). Quantifier expressions are things like "some", "most", "there are", "there exist", and so on. This paper was mostly my argument for why I think "there are" and "there exists" are not synonymous (and also why that might matter). The word cloud was made at http://www.wordle.net/

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