7 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] |
18779 | 'The' is a quantifier, like 'every' and 'a', and does not result in denotation [Montague] |
10494 | Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen] |
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] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |