7 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] |
13190 | I don't admit infinite numbers, and consider infinitesimals to be useful fictions [Leibniz] |
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] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |