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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Possible Worlds' and 'Five Milestones of Empiricism'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition
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]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
15789 Lewis's distinction of 'existing' from 'being actual' is Meinong's between 'existing' and 'subsisting' [Lycan on Lewis]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
21982 I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism
15790 Lewis can't know possible worlds without first knowing what is possible or impossible [Lycan on Lewis]
15791 What are the ontological grounds for grouping possibilia into worlds? [Lycan on Lewis]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
19050 Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine]