Ideas from 'Five Milestones of Empiricism' by Willard Quine [1975], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Theories and Things' by Quine,Willard [Harvard 1981,0-674-87926-0]].

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

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Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences

19047

Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

19049

In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning

19046

Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences