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All the ideas for 'Perceptual experience has conceptual content', 'Five Milestones of Empiricism' and 'Nonexistent Objects'

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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]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

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There is an object for every set of properties (some of which exist, and others don't) [Parsons,T, by Sawyer]

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

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In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine]

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Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations

8875	Sense experiences must have conceptual content, since they are possible reasons for judgements [Brewer,B]

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

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