TY - JOUR AU - Alioscia Hamma PY - 2022/01/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Empiricism without dogmas: a comment on Quine’s critique to logical positivism JF - BORNH Bulletin of Regional Natural History JA - bornh VL - 1 IS - 4 SE - Articoli DO - 10.6093/2724-4393/8926 UR - http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/bornh/article/view/8926 AB - In his celebrated essay Two Dogmas of Empiricism[1], Quine rejects the traditional postulates of logical positivism, namely the analytic- synthetic distinction and the doctrine of verifiability of singular statements. A first consequence is the impossibility of invalidating any statement and a form of holism. The second consequence is pragmatism. Quine’s arguments echo those of some cultural anthropology. We remark on the role of Philosophy as activity. ER -