5 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] |
9381 | If some inferences are needed to fix meaning, but we don't know which, they are all relevant [Fodor/Lepore, by Boghossian] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
14409 | I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow] |