Quote: every cause of an event is itself an event or occurrence; thus an absolute beginning is impossible in the sensible world [»kantI_1781, OK]

Quote: the problem of original semantics is how nonderivative symbols come to have a meaning; then define other symbols in terms of these [»vangR_1992]

Quote: the natural law that everything has a cause and that all events are empirically determined lies at the foundation of a connected system of appearances; i.e., nature [»kantI_1781, OK]

Quote: to determine the meaning of 'good' need to know what 'mean' means, e.g., need to know what words have meaning in E [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: if a word does not have meaning in an utterance, then stressing the word is not significant; e.g., 'to' in 'I want to go through Istanbul' [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: a concept is the entity which a predicate means; the meaning of a complex name depends on the meaning, not the sense, of its parts [»dummM_1967]

Quote: the syntactic structure and phonemes of a sentence depends on its meaning [»oettAG_1972]

Quote: a schoolboy parses a sentence backwards, from meaning to structure

Quote: a real science is about mental contents standing for things; e.g., 'all fire is warming' because 'warming' is a mental content common to every fire [»ockhW_1310]

Quote: consciousness is amazing; it is the central fact of human existence; without it, the universe is meaningless [»searJR_1984]

Quote: intentionality is amazing, i.e., that mental states refer to the world; how can atoms in the void refer? [»searJR_1984]

Quote: it is better to suspect we are wrong than to accept an error as right [»faraM_1855, OK]

Quote: thought/semantics is equivalent to capturing the compact structure of the world [»baumEB_2004]

Quote: communication reproduces a message from a set of possible messages; semantics and meaning are irrelevant [»shanCE7_1948]

Quote: relying on intuition about the meaning of names is dangerous or almost impossible; need to specify the operational semantics of a type [»guttJV6_1977]