Full Idea
Quine cannot deal with the intuition that there is a difference in kind between our knowledge of arithmetic and our knowledge of physics.
Gist of Idea
Quine blurs the difference between knowledge of arithmetic and of physics
Source
comment on Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953]) by Carrie Jenkins - Grounding Concepts 7.5
Book Reference
Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.214
A Reaction
The endorses this criticism, which she says is widespread. I'm not convinced that there is a clear notion of 'difference in kind' here. Jenkins gets arithmetic from concepts and physics from the world. Is that a sharp distinction?