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Quine Against the Dogmas of Empiricism
by Prof. Michele Marsonet . How can we be sure that our beliefs really bear on the world? If we read carefully Quine’s rejection of the second dogma of empiricism, it is clear that he relates the empirical significance of our statements about the world with their possibility of being subject to what he calls, in Kantian terms, “the tribunal of experience”. We writes, in fact, that “Our statements about the external world face the tribunal of experience not individually but as a corporate body.” So it turns out that when we want to verify whe…
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