8 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |