10 ideas
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
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] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
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] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |