15 ideas
| 8594 | People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared [Shoemaker] |
| 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] |
| 22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
| 8596 | Inability to measure equality doesn't make all lengths unequal [Shoemaker] |
| 8597 | We couldn't verify the earth's rotation if everyone simultaneously fell asleep [Shoemaker] |
| 22074 | We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling] |
| 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] |
| 8593 | Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal [Shoemaker] |
| 22075 | Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling] |
| 19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
| 8598 | If things turn red for an hour and then explode, we wouldn't say the redness was the cause [Shoemaker] |
| 4226 | If three regions 'freeze' every three, four and five years, after sixty years everything stops for a year [Shoemaker, by Lowe] |
| 8595 | If three regions freeze every 3rd, 4th and 5th year, they all freeze together every 60 years [Shoemaker] |