10 ideas
18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
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] |
22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
16751 | Unity by aggregation, order, inherence, composition, and simplicity [Conimbricense, by Pasnau] |
16720 | Secondary qualities come from temperaments and proportions of primary qualities [Conimbricense] |
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] |
18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |