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In a passage near the end of his essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," W.V.O. Quine is led, as a result of his denial of the analytic-synthetic distinction in natural language, to compare "the totality of our socalled knowledge or beliefs" (or, apparently alternatively, "total science") to "a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience."
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proximal account, infimum bonum, neural intake, uninteresting legalism, naturalized empiricism, affirmative stimulus meaning, activated nerve endings, arrogance response, unassailable tenet, negative stimulus meaning, empirical foothold, distal account, servation sentences, methodological infirmity, cosmic complements, conceptual sovereignty, observation categoricals, gratuitous extensions, underdetermination thesis, naturalized epistemology, naturalized epistemologist, held true come, naturalize epistemology, comprehensive coherence, meager input
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Pursuit of Truth, New York, Donald Davidson, Periphery Sentences, The Roots of Reference, Stimulus Sentences, Journal of Philosophy, The Nature of Natural Knowledge, Vienna Circle, Logical Point of View, Hilary Putnam, Open Court, Rudolf Carnap, Project of Validation, Barry Stroud, Basil Blackwell, Columbia University Press, Harvard University Press, The Logical Syntax of Language, Midwest Studies, Richard Rorty, The Journal of Pbilosopby, Alvin Plantinga, Clarendon Press, Compare Quine
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