Full Idea
This essay offered a verificationist account of language without the logical positivist error of supposing that verification could be reduced to a mere sequence of sense-experiences.
Clarification
Verificationism in language says meaning is entirely a matter of connections with actual experience
Gist of Idea
There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations
Source
comment on Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948]) by Daniel C. Dennett - works
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.1
A Reaction
This is because of Quine's holistic view of theory, so that sentences are not tested individually, where sense-data might be needed as support, but as whole teams which need to be simple, coherent etc.