5 ideas
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
17743 | De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki] |
5880 | Xenocrates held that the soul had no form or substance, but was number [Xenocrates, by Cicero] |
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] |