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" As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries... "
Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical ... - Page 7
by Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 299 pages
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Can Theories be Refuted?: Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis

Sandra Harding - 1975 - 358 pages
...meaning merely that little preferential connection with any particular sense data obtrudes itself. As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries - not by definition in terms...
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Models of Man: Philosophical Thoughts on Social Action, Volume 743

Martin Hollis - 1977 - 210 pages
...such a shift and the shift whereby Kepler superseded Ptolemy, or Einstein Newton, or Darwin Aristotle? As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries - not by definition in terms...
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The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930

Bruce Kuklick - 1979 - 712 pages
...by the board, and the question is always one of choice among alternative systems. So Quine declares, As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries—not by definition in terms...
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Challenges to Empiricism

Harold Morick - 1980 - 348 pages
...meaning merely that little preferential connection with any particular sense data obtrudes itself. As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries — not by definition in terms...
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Religion and Radical Empiricism: The Importance of Self-Definition in Research

Nancy Frankenberry - 1987 - 246 pages
...pragmatic appeal more evident than in the following famous passage which is worth quoting at length: As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries — not by definition in terms...
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The Mind of Donald Davidson

Johannes Brandl, Wolfgang L. Gombocz - 1989 - 220 pages
...empiricism, a one-by-one statement empiricism is repudiated by Quine. But he does not give up empiricism: "As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...predicting future experience in the light of past experience."7 The word "scheme" here is connected to a new dualism which Quine substitutes for the...
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The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism

Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...physics on Truth and Reality. Quine's refusal to give up on ontology seems odd given statements like: As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient...
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Phenomenology and Beyond: The Self and Its Language

H.A. Durfee, David F.T. Rodier - 1989 - 194 pages
...structure like that of modern physics, rather than one involving the gods of Homer. Quine 's answer is: As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of (modern) science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience In the light of past experience....
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Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism

Lynn Nelson - 2010 - 414 pages
...experiences. Thus, epistemology and metaphysics are fundamentally related — and part of science. As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries — not by definition in terms...
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Classics of Analytic Philosophy

Robert R. Ammerman - 1990 - 428 pages
...meaning merely that little preferential connection with any particular sense data obtrudes itself. As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual...the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries — not by definition in terms...
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