Ideas from 'Russell's Ontological Development' by Willard Quine [1966], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Theories and Things' by Quine,Willard [Harvard 1981,0-674-87926-0]].

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

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Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

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Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible

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Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it