Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Nicholas Bourbaki and Willard Quine

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
9379 A sentence is obvious if it is true, and any speaker of the language will instantly agree to it [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
9005 Examination of convention in the a priori begins to blur the distinction with empirical knowledge [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic
9383 Metaphysical analyticity (and linguistic necessity) are hopeless, but epistemic analyticity is a priori [Boghossian on Quine]
12424 Quine challenges the claim that analytic truths are knowable a priori [Quine, by Kitcher]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori
9338 Quine's objections to a priori knowledge only work in the domain of science [Horwich on Quine]
9337 Science is empirical, simple and conservative; any belief can hence be abandoned; so no a priori [Quine, by Horwich]
9340 Logic, arithmetic and geometry are revisable and a posteriori; quantum logic could be right [Horwich on Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems
21686 Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
1620 Empiricism makes a basic distinction between truths based or not based on facts [Quine]
8450 Quine's empiricism is based on whole theoretical systems, not on single mental events [Quine, by Orenstein]
19046 Empiricism improvements: words for ideas, then sentences, then systems, then no analytic, then naturalism [Quine]
1629 Our outer beliefs must match experience, and our inner ones must be simple [Quine]
19049 In scientific theories sentences are too brief to be independent vehicles of empirical meaning [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
21685 Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine]
12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
19488 The second dogma is linking every statement to some determinate observations [Quine, by Yablo]