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