9 ideas
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] |
18946 | Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer] |
22320 | An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein] |
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] |
18283 | Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein] |
18282 | You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |