Netherlands. (3) 11 The reunion of the two regions was not a happy one, for they had become widely disparate in political background, tradition, religion, language, and economy. In 1830 the Belgians revolted and established their independence as a sovereign state. A conference in London of the major European powers formulated the conditions of separation in 1831. The Dutch king under pressure from France and Great Britain accepted the stipulations. But when they were later revised by the conference in favor of the Belgians, a Dutch army invaded Belgium and routed the opposing forces. The conditions of separation were again revised and were finally accepted by both countries in 1839. (3) 2.11 The Development of Parliamentary Democracy The second half of the 19th century was marked by a liberalization of the Netherlands government under the impact of the revolutions that had swept Europe during the 1840s. The
Some positivists took the line that the principle was a useful stipulative definition of the word "mean- ing," for technical purposes. Hempel (1950) called the principle a "proposal," hence neither true nor false, but subject to each of several rational demands and constraints, hence not simply arbitrary. Of course, any philosopher can stipulate anything at any time; but how does that help those of us who are looking around for a credible, indeed correct theory of meaning (as is)? Stipulations have their uses but, when we are trying to come to an adequate philosophical theory of a pre-existing phenomenon, a stipulation is not of much help. I suppose some positivists thought of the principle as a faithful, correct definition that captures the antecedent meaning of "meaning." The trouble with that idea is that we do not know what specifically semantic evidence would bear out the definition as correct. Certainly the positivists had not
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