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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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A sentence is obvious if it is true, and any speaker of the language will instantly agree to it [Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
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Examination of convention in the a priori begins to blur the distinction with empirical knowledge [Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic
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Metaphysical analyticity (and linguistic necessity) are hopeless, but epistemic analyticity is a priori [Boghossian on Quine]
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Quine challenges the claim that analytic truths are knowable a priori [Quine, by Kitcher]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori
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Quine's objections to a priori knowledge only work in the domain of science [Horwich on Quine]
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Science is empirical, simple and conservative; any belief can hence be abandoned; so no a priori [Quine, by Horwich]
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Logic, arithmetic and geometry are revisable and a posteriori; quantum logic could be right [Horwich on Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems
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Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine]
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Empiricism makes a basic distinction between truths based or not based on facts [Quine]
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Quine's empiricism is based on whole theoretical systems, not on single mental events [Quine, by Orenstein]
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Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine]
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Our outer beliefs must match experience, and our inner ones must be simple [Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
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Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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The second dogma is linking every statement to some determinate observations [Quine, by Yablo]
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