8 ideas
6294 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God [John] |
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] |
8821 | Jesus said he bore witness to the truth. Pilate asked, What is truth? [John] |
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] |
14280 | The probability of two events is the first probability times the second probability assuming the first [Bayes] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |