Epistemological Evidences

Orman Quine, Willard Var; Esghaee, Mohammad Ali

Epistemological Evidences

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Willard Var Orman Quine ¹

mohammad Ali Esghaee ²

¹ Distinguished Professor, Harvard University, USA - Author

² PhD student in Philosophy, University of Tehran-Translator

Abstract

Quine selects the scope of prediction and test of research in. In evidence ' chapter he says that the forming of the critical systems starts with the stimulus of the senses, which gives us, the observation sentences. The observation categoricals are deduced from them. Tests are on the basis of these categoricals. He says he does not believe in the Cartesian scientific certainty, and then mentions his ' theory of naturalized Epistemology ' as an alternative way

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