12 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] |
5062 | First: there must be reasons; Second: why anything at all?; Third: why this? [Leibniz] |
19377 | A monad and its body are living, so life is everywhere, and comes in infinite degrees [Leibniz] |
19353 | 'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz] |
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] |
5061 | Animals are semi-rational because they connect facts, but they don't see causes [Leibniz] |
19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |