Combining Philosophers
Ideas for William W. Tait, Willard Quine and Ralph Cudworth
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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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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In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [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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Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth]
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