9 ideas
19048 | Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine] |
19047 | Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
19049 | In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine] |
19046 | Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine] |
3238 | 'Dead person' isn't a contradiction, so 'person' is somewhat vague [Williams,B] |
3239 | You can only really love a person as a token, not as a type [Williams,B] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |