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Full Idea
The doctrine of Quine called "meaning holism" offered arguments refuting logical positivist attempts to show that every term we can understand can be defined using a limited group of "observation terms".
Gist of Idea
Meaning holism tried to show that you can't get fixed meanings built out of observation terms
Source
Hilary Putnam (Representation and Reality [1988], §1 p.08)
Book Ref
Putnam,Hilary: 'Representation and Reality' [MIT 1992], p.8
A Reaction
To seems a rather large jump from saying that sentences come in groups to full-blown 'holism' (involving every sentence).