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1625 | Statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience as a corporate body [Quine] |
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. | |
From: Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.41) |