8 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] |
3570 | Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M] |
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] |
2748 | A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |