7 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] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
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] |
14470 | Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |