Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Quine, W.V.O., (1951, 1961), ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’
A wonderfully forceful and lucid attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction.
the tide is on our side
Quine, W.V.O., (1951, 1961), ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’
A wonderfully forceful and lucid attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction.
Quine would be upset that you failed to capitalize a part of his name – the only part, in fact, that friends knew to call him by. (And you should probably remove the extra “Q”.)
Without some sort of background in both formal logical languages, and the canonical theories in analytic philosophy of language, one is likely to misunderstand Quine. Perhaps even, too, without some familiarity of the popular epistemological theories of the time. Because always, always, to really and fully grasp what a philosopher – or perhaps any thinker of any kind, and that includes artists – is saying, one cannot ignore the historical context in which they are speaking, i.e., to whom and to what theories they are responding, and what motivates and/or inspires their responses. (You have probably personally picked up enough from me to get a pretty good idea.)
Capitalize! Capitalize!