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All the ideas for 'works', 'Five Milestones of Empiricism' and 'Ethics without Principles'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

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Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine]

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Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

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]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

19050

Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

4366	We can't accept Aristotle's naturalism about persons, because it is normative and unscientific [Williams,B, by Hursthouse]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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The base for values has grounds, catalysts and intensifiers [Dancy,J, by Orsi]