W. V. O. Quine's influential essay arguing that the two dogmas of logical empiricism — the analytic-synthetic distinction and reductionism — are both untenable, holism follows.
No satisfactory definition of analyticity has been given that is not circular; the reductionist assumption that each sentence has its own range of confirming experiences is false. Our beliefs face the tribunal of experience as a corporate body — the web of belief.
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