8 ideas
19048 | Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine] |
19047 | Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine] |
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] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
7453 | Galen's medicine followed the mean; each illness was balanced by opposite treatment [Galen, by Hacking] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |