5 ideas
| 21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
| 21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
| 16792 | If parts change, the whole changes [William of Ockham] |
| 21507 | Scientific explanation aims at a unifying account of underlying structures and processes [Hempel] |
| 21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |