“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”

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“Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.

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instanceOf academic article
philosophical essay
addresses criteria of cognitive significance
relationship between theory and experience
role of convention in meaning
status of analytic truths
author Willard Van Orman Quine
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Willard Van Orman Quine
centralThesis reductionism about meaning and knowledge is untenable
the analytic–synthetic distinction is untenable
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizes analytic–synthetic dichotomy
logical empiricism
logical positivism
reduction of meaningful statements to sense data
verificationism
field epistemology
philosophy of language
philosophy of science
firstPublishedIn The Philosophical Review
hasReputation classic critique of logical empiricism
landmark in 20th-century analytic philosophy
influenced Willard Van Orman Quine
surface form: Donald Davidson

Hilary Putnam
Michael Dummett
analytic philosophy
epistemology in the 20th century
holism about confirmation
naturalized epistemology
philosophy of language in the 20th century
semantic holism
isOftenAnthologizedIn collections of analytic philosophy
readings in epistemology
isTaughtIn university philosophy curricula
language English
mainTopic analytic–synthetic distinction
empiricism
meaning and verification
reductionism
philosophicalMovementCritiqued Vienna Circle
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
proposes confirmation holism
web of belief metaphor
publicationYear 1951
relatedConcept indeterminacy of translation
ontological relativity
relatedWork Epistemology Naturalized
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