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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science' and 'Five Milestones of Empiricism'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

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The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

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Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine]

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Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

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In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine]

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Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

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Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine]