8 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] |
3750 | "It is true that x" means no more than x [Ramsey] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
18818 | Sentence meaning is given by the actions to which it would lead [Ramsey] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |