Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 20
Memories: are no traces of earlier sensations, but conceptual.
>Memory/Quine
II 18
We learn to recognize every object when it has distinctive features. But also in other ways, when we keep looking.
Long-term causal relationships: if any dog does this or that, the same dog will behave like this or that in due course.
This only becomes possible when quantification comes into the picture. (Equivalent of quantification: the relative sentence in plural predication). In this way, individuation in the time dimension is dependent on relative clauses. And only when the individuation is complete does the reference actually reach its goal.
>Quantification/Quine, >Individuation/Quine
VIII 205
Thing/object/reification/identity/recognition/Carnap/Quine: Carnap (The Logical Structure of the World) gave a masterful caricature of this maxim of how our perception constructs the world:
1. Color distribution in the visual field, this provides a two-dimensional order.
2. These are projected into the three-dimensional space.
VIII 206
Problem: the distance from the eye remains undefined.
Solution/Carnap: to assume all possible distances in which the color is changed least. With new color impressions, the assumption is changed retrospectively. And in such a way that the smoothest story results.
>Colour/Quine
Quine: this is anything but a game for babies. And also not for animals!