| 9180 | Holism says all language use is also a change in the rules of language [Frege, by Dummett] |
| 4142 | To understand a sentence means to understand a language [Wittgenstein] |
| 1619 | There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations [Dennett on Quine] |
| 2334 | Meaning holism tried to show that you can't get fixed meanings built out of observation terms [Putnam] |
| 2336 | Holism seems to make fixed definition more or less impossible [Putnam] |
| 2335 | Understanding a sentence involves background knowledge and can't be done in isolation [Putnam] |
| 2560 | Can meanings remain the same when beliefs change? [Rorty] |
| 6394 | The pattern of sentences held true gives sentences their meaning [Davidson] |
| 2477 | If to understand "fish" you must know facts about them, where does that end? [Fodor] |
| 2433 | For holists no two thoughts are ever quite the same, which destroys faith in meaning [Fodor] |
| 2761 | If the meanings of sentences depend on other sentences, how did we learn language? [Dancy,J] |
| 3000 | Meaning holism is a crazy doctrine [Fodor] |
| 7320 | Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A] |
| 3205 | Semantic holism means new evidence for a belief changes the belief, and we can't agree on concepts [Rey] |
| 9381 | If some inferences are needed to fix meaning, but we don't know which, they are all relevant [Fodor/Lepore, by Boghossian] |
| 4606 | To understand 'birds warble' and 'tigers growl', you must also understand 'tigers warble' [Heil] |