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] |
14289 | There are some assertable conditionals one would reject if one learned the antecedent [Jackson, by Edgington] |
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] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |