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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism

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)

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

3095	Induction is an attempt to increase the coherence of our explanations [Harman]
	Full Idea: Induction is an attempt to increase the explanatory coherence of our view, making it more complete, less ad hoc, more plausible.
	From: Gilbert Harman (Thought [1973], 10.2)