• DOI:10.22240/sent33.02.009
Corpus ID: 62779997

The two dogmas of empiricism

@inproceedings{Quine1951TheTD,
  title={The two dogmas of empiricism},
  author={W. Quine},
  year={1951}
}

W. Quine

Published 1951

Philosophy, Sociology

Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytic, or grounded in meanings independently of matters of fact, and truths which aresynthetic, or grounded in fact. The other dogma is reductionism: the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience. Both dogmas, I shall argue, are ill-founded. One effect of abandoning them is… CONTINUE READING

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