Main Trends in Recent Philosophy: Two Dogmas of Empiricism

1951/01/01 by W. V. Quine · 2,980 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Analytic philosophy #Contemporary philosophy #Empiricism #Epistemology #General interest #Philosophy #Philosophy, Science, and History

paper · doi:10.2307/2181906

published in The Philosophical Review 60(1), 20 (Duke University Press)

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