Duhem, Quine and the other dogma

Afriat, Alexander (2004) Duhem, Quine and the other dogma.

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Abstract

With resources hinted at in different ways by both Duhem and Quine, it is argued that some of their misgivings about empirical confirmation, or crucial experiments, may be exaggerated or unfounded; and that such experiments, suitably conceived, can give good meaning to empirical sentences. With appropriate meanings one can then wonder about synonymy and analyticity.

Keywords:Duhem, Quine, crucial experiments, analytic-synthetic
Subjects:Specific Sciences: Physics: Quantum Mechanics
ID Code:1698
Deposited By:Afriat, Alexander
Deposited On:06 April 2004

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