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All the ideas for 'Letter to the Editor about Bayle', 'Five Milestones of Empiricism' and 'Instrospection'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition
Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine]
Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine]
Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection
Introspection is not perception, because there are no extra qualities apart from the mental events themselves [Rosenthal]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
In addition to laws, God must also create appropriate natures for things [Leibniz]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
All that is real in motion is the force or power which produces change [Leibniz]