Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
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Les Deux Dogmes de l'empirisme
Willard Van Orman Quine: Langue
Explorez des citations intéressantes sur langue.“On se réoriente d'autre part vers le pragmatisme.”
Another effect is a shift toward pragmatism.
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Les Deux Dogmes de l'empirisme
My countersuggestion, issuing essentially from Carnap's doctrine of the physical world in the Aufbau, is that our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience not individually but only as a corporate body.
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Les Deux Dogmes de l'empirisme