Full Idea
Crispin Wright has argued that Quine's holism is implausible because it is actually incoherent: he claims that Quine's holism cannot provide us with a coherent account of scientific methodology.
Gist of Idea
Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology
Source
report of Crispin Wright (Inventing Logical Necessity [1986]) by Alexander Miller - Philosophy of Language 4.5
Book Reference
Miller,Alexander: 'Philosophy of Language' [UCL Press 1998], p.126
A Reaction
This sounds promising, given my intuitive aversion to linguistic holism, and almost everything to do with Quine. Scientific methodology is not isolated, but spreads into our ordinary (experimental) interactions with the world (e.g. Idea 2461).
Related Idea
Idea 2461 An experiment is a deliberate version of what informal thinking does all the time [Fodor]