7 ideas
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
21558 | 'Predicative' norms are those which define a class [Russell] |
21559 | We need rules for deciding which norms are predicative (unless none of them are) [Russell] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |