10 ideas
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
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] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
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] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |