6 ideas
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
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] |
16745 | No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |