9 ideas
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [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] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [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] |