5 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] |
9379 | A sentence is obvious if it is true, and any speaker of the language will instantly agree to it [Quine] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |