Lexicon of Arguments

 

Rorty I 296
Weight of theory in observation: from it follows Quine’s overthrow of the two dogmas. (Kuhn, Feierabend). If we were to admit for once that Newton was not better than Aristotle, because his words corresponded with reality, and if we were to base our preference not simply on the vague holistic reasoning that Newton allowed us to better get on with reality, then we would have no arguments for the separation of science from religion.
Quine I 89f
Stimulus meaning is independent of number of speakers - observation proximity: societal: similarity of the stimulus meaning in the Community. - Observation proximity high: colors. - Low: Bachelor.
>Stimulus Meaning/Quine.
I 97f
Gaurisankar: opportunity sentences are mutually exclusive, after discovery stimulus meanings collapse.
II 43
Categorical observation sentences: are independent of space and time where there’s smoke, there’s fire - through language learning - knowledge still needs space/time - but they are theoretical terms! - Truth of categorical observation sentences not by observation - But by falsification. (> Falsification/Popper).
V 61f
Observation/Theory/Quine: here there are two relationships: an epistemological one of confirmation and a semantic one through which the sentences acquire meaning - these two relations are coextensive, in other words: the epistemological and semantic relationship between observations and sentences are coextensive. - ((s) This is not identity.)
V 64
Observation/Quine: does not define! - Instead: observation sentences. - Observation: smell, taste, touch, hearing sensation. - Behavioral criterion: consent, agreement that do not rely on sense data. - ((s) but on language? - B-sentence: Does usually not speak about feelings but external things, no conclusions - ultimately everyday language, not specialization.
>Observation Sentences/Quine.
V 67
Everyone learns their object language in their own way.
>Object Language/Quine.
V 68
But it must be possible to learn by direct conditioning - learning by determining the similarity basis.
V 94
Observation sentence: only has a truth value in conjunction with a situation.