Thomasson on Ontological Commitment & Parsimony Kareem Khalifa Philosophy Department Middlebury College.

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Thomasson on Ontological Commitment & Parsimony Kareem Khalifa Philosophy Department Middlebury College

I. Introduction A.Reminder B.Key Terms C.Ockham vs. ordinary objects

II. Parsimony’s plausiblity

III. Counting dilemma

IV. The case for ordinary objects

V. Trivial transformations A.The language of refuge B.Thomasson vs. Quine C.The point of paraphrase

VI. Extraordinary objects? A.Hoverball objection B.Thomasson vs. hoverball

VII. The price of avoiding ordinary objects A.Revolutionary eliminativism B.Thomasson vs. revolutionary eliminativism

Recap