I am not opposed to this being upvoted. It is a fairly interesting paper, and I am glad to see people express a variety of interests.<p>I am curious though: there are many, many, many philosophy papers out there. Many are written on this topic (Carnap and Quine). Indeed there are papers by Carnap and Quine.<p>Why then, of all the papers out there, did this particular one make it up to HN's front page?<p>p.s. In general we are not supposed to ask why things were upvoted, downvoted, or claim that things do not belong. I guess this isn't that. I am not asking why this is here, or why it was upvoted. I am asking why all the other papers aren't upvoted, and why they aren't here.