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مقدمة

Quine presented the paper to the American Philosophical Association in December 1950; it appeared in the Philosophical Review in January 1951 and was reprinted in From a Logical Point of View (1953). He tries in turn to explain analyticity through meaning, synonymy, definition and the semantic rules of artificial languages, and finds that each attempt goes in a circle. Against the second dogma, the idea that each statement can be confirmed in isolation, he holds that our knowledge is a man-made fabric that meets experience only along its edges; any statement can be held true if we adjust enough elsewhere, and none, not even a law of logic, is immune to revision. The paper ends by recommending a more thorough pragmatism.

الصلات

ينتقد

• البنية المنطقية للعالم (Der logische Aufbau der Welt)1928 · رودولف كارناب

جرى تناوله في

• الكلمة والموضوع1960 · ويلارد فان أورمان كواين
• الفلسفة ومرآة الطبيعة (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature)1979 · ريتشارد رورتي

انتُقد في

• في فكرة المخطط المفاهيمي ذاتها (On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme)1974 · دونالد ديفيدسن

مزيد من أعمال ويلارد فان أورمان كواين

• 1960الكلمة والموضوع
• 1969الإبستمولوجيا المُطبَّعة (Epistemology Naturalized)