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21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
3648 | Empiricists are collecting ants; rationalists are spinning spiders; and bees do both [Bacon] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |