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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Classes and Attributes' and 'Five Milestones of Empiricism'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition
Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine]
Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 11. Properties as Sets
While no two classes coincide in membership, there are distinct but coextensive attributes [Cartwright,R]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine]
In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine]