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] |
| 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] |
| 1490 | You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture [Nagel] |
| 19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
| 19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |