Single Idea 1625

[catalogued under 14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism]

Full Idea

My suggestion, following Carnap, is that our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience not individually but only as a corporate body.

Gist of Idea

Statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience as a corporate body

Source

Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.41)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.41