Lexicon of Arguments

 

IX 150
Law of comparability/trichotomy law/Quine: "x << y v y << x" - a class is either smaller or equally large to the other or vice versa. Trichotomy: adds as a third: x << y v x ~ y v y << x. Either x is smaller as y or vice versa or both are equally large.
VII (d) 78
Conceptual Scheme/Quine: we were born into it, but we can change it bit by bit, like Neurath's ship.
VII (d) 79
But we cannot step outside, and objectively compare with an incomprehensible world.
It is meaningless to understand the conceptual scheme as a mirror of reality ((s) which is then assumed to be unconceptual).
II 14
Comparison/Language/World/Quine: the predication of the dog is to be compared with the predication of milk (in contrast to milk and dog, which are not to be compared). That Fifi is a dog, amounts to the simple fact that you always point to a dog when you point to Fifi. The same with milk. But Fifi is not a mass term, so Fifi's head does not count as a dog. In this way, predication produces the difference between individual and other terms.
>Predication, >World/Thinking.
XIII 190
Comparability/Quine: the different senses of the words could already be distinguished earlier in terms of comparability (differentiation by comparability).
Comparability: is a sensor for equality of meaning. E.g. cool drinks and cool receptions cannot be compared. But only in the case of adjectives that allow comparison.
>Comparability.