8 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] |
| 3912 | I must exist in order to be mistaken, so that even if I am mistaken, I can't be wrong about my own existence [Augustine] |
| 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] |
| 6683 | The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible [Augustine] |
| 19050 | Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences [Quine] |
| 7399 | Even without religion, there are many guides to morality [Bacon] |