“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 W. V. O. Quine ⓘ
Willard Van Orman Quine ⓘ
centralThesis reductionism about meaning and knowledge is untenable ⓘ
the analytic–synthetic distinction is untenable ⓘ
countryOfOrigin 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 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 ⓘ
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relatedWork Epistemology Naturalized ⓘ
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