Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Hermarchus, Willard Quine and Georg Kreisel

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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
Our outer beliefs must match experience, and our inner ones must be simple [Quine]
In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine]
Empiricism makes a basic distinction between truths based or not based on facts [Quine]
Quine's empiricism is based on whole theoretical systems, not on single mental events [Quine, by Orenstein]
Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
The second dogma is linking every statement to some determinate observations [Quine, by Yablo]