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  1. E.g., in “Designation and Existence,”Journal of Philosophy, 36:701-9 (1939); “Notes on Existence and Necessity,”ibid. 40:113-27 (1943).

  2. Gustav Bergmann, “A Note on Ontology,”Philosophical Studies, 1:89–92.

  3. Mathematical Logic (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947), sec. 27;Methods of Logic (New York: Holt, 1950), sec. 37.

  4. Alfred Tarski,A Decision Method for Elementary Algebra and Geometry (Santa Monica, 1948).

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  7. See my “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” forthcoming inPhilosophical Review, vol. 60.

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Quine, W.V. Ontology and ideology. Philos Stud 2, 11–15 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198233

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