5 ideas
23248 | Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Galen, by Frede,M] |
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |