7 ideas
16541 | All the intrinsic properties of a thing should be deducible from its definition [Spinoza] |
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
13073 | To understand the properties we must know the essence, as with a circle [Spinoza] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |