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Single Idea 1620

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism]

Full Idea

One dogma of empiricism is that there is some fundamental cleavage between truths that are analytic, or grounded in meanings independently of facts, and truths which are synthetic, or grounded in fact.

Gist of Idea

Empiricism makes a basic distinction between truths based or not based on facts

Source

Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.20)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.20