8 ideas
21757 | Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel] |
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] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
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] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |