9 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
21846 | Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze] |
17368 | Essentialism concerns the nature of a group, not its category [Devitt] |
17370 | Things that gradually change, like species, can still have essences [Devitt] |
21854 | Bergson showed that memory is not after the event, but coexists with it [Bergson, by Deleuze] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
17369 | We name species as small to share properties, but large enough to yield generalisations [Devitt] |
17367 | Species are phenetic, biological, niche, or phylogenetic-cladistic [Devitt, by PG] |