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Full Idea
The outer edge of our empirical system must be kept squared with experience; the rest, with all its elaborate myths and fictions, has as its objective the simplicity of laws.
Gist of Idea
Our outer beliefs must match experience, and our inner ones must be simple
Source
Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.45)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.45