Review article
Unsustainability of Quine's third dogma of empiricism: the dichotomy of a conceptual scheme and emprical content
Igor Žontar
orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-6788
; University of Sarajevo - Catholic Theological Faculty in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Quine’s rejection of the analytic-synthetic dichotomy, as a result of uncritical references to meaning and analyticity, ultimately generates the third dogma of empiricism, which is the dichotomy of a conceptual scheme and empirical content. This last dogma of empiricism, so named by Donald Davidson, in terms of Quine’s behavioral interpretation of language, entails ontological and cognitive relativism. However, Davidson, applying methodological means of interpretation such as rational-logical correctness, brings into question the intelligibility of the very idea of the dichotomy of
a conceptual scheme and empirical content, and the intelligibility of the very dogma that generates ontological and cognitive relativism.
Keywords
Quine, Davidson; analytic-synthetic dichotomy; conceptual scheme; ontological relativism; cognitive relativism; principle of charity.
Hrčak ID:
260887
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Publication date:
1.7.2015.
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