Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 42 ff
Theories/Davidson: science shows that we have no reasons to assume that our theory of the world is better than that of our neighbors, although we might be able to show that the theory of our neighbors is fundamentally wrong, if our own is true.
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Glüer II 74
Errors/Theory/Davidson/Glüer: Errors at the beginning of a theory are more important than those that occur during the construction.
Theory/Significance Holism/Holism/Glüer: The relations between theory construction and meaning holism are reciprocal, such a structure has no beginning, it resembles a three-dimensional network. >Holism, >Semantic holism, >Meaning holism.
Meaning constitutive is always only a certain number of logical relations of a questionable proposition, otherwise we could never be of divided opinion about one and the same object, otherwise we would have no possibility to talk about the same thing.
II 74/75
Even if it seems plausible that the set of meaningful beliefs is not clearly delineated, the moderate holist, if he generally tries to regard certain beliefs as essential, runs the risk of smuggling in an unexplicit analytically synthetic distinction.
Which are relevant and which are not, but changes with the context.
II 76
Errors and mistakes will only be tolerated if they can be explained with good reason and their scope is locally limited.