Hrm. I guess the semester has started up again, hasn't it?

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no idea whatcha talking about friend ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)....Yeah us undergrads are getting slaughtered in a particular analytic phil course.

That's definitely an assignment. Neat ASCI art, though.

It can help to write out some thoughts. Why not give it a try?

People will be more amenable to conversing with a post of substance and exchanging ideas if not in the form of an obvious class essay question. (And, hey, if you're actually reading the articles and discussing them, you wouldn't even be cheating -- just getting feedback).

Check out SEP (http://plato.stanford.edu) entry on Quine.

Basically, Quine divides existent things into two sorts: physical objects and mathematical objects. Quine made an emphasis on theories of reference than on theories of meaning. It is important for Quine to see how quantifiers quantify over variables. Quine says, "To be is to be the value of a variable." Mathematical objects, especially sets, are accepted because of their usefulness. Sets can include various physical objects. For example, the set of chairs includes chairs as physical objects.
Any question?

I made a more conversational post. Sorry, didn't mean for this to come off as a hw assignment.