“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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| Two Dogmas of Empiricism | 8 |
| analytic–synthetic distinction | 1 |
| essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" | 1 |
| “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
academic article
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philosophical essay ⓘ |
| addresses |
criteria of cognitive significance
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relationship between theory and experience ⓘ role of convention in meaning ⓘ status of analytic truths ⓘ |
| author |
Willard Van Orman Quine
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W. V. O. Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine ⓘ |
| centralThesis |
reductionism about meaning and knowledge is untenable
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the analytic–synthetic distinction is untenable ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States
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| criticizes |
analytic–synthetic dichotomy
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logical empiricism ⓘ logical positivism ⓘ reduction of meaningful statements to sense data ⓘ verificationism ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology
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philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Philosophical Review ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
classic critique of logical empiricism
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landmark in 20th-century analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
Willard Van Orman Quine
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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
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readings in epistemology ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | university philosophy curricula ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
analytic–synthetic distinction
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empiricism ⓘ meaning and verification ⓘ reductionism ⓘ |
| philosophicalMovementCritiqued | Vienna Circle ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| proposes |
confirmation holism
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web of belief metaphor ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
indeterminacy of translation
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ontological relativity ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Epistemology Naturalized
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Word and Object ⓘ |
| title |
“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
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Two Dogmas of Empiricism
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