Lexicon of Arguments

 

Fodor IV 44
Confirmation/Peirce: confirmation relations are ipso facto semantic. QuineVs: evidence is not semantic, otherwise they would be a priori - see below.
IV 37
Confirmation cannot follow from meaning.
VI 3
Evidence/Quine: we do without this term in favor of stimulus influence! Instead, we speak of observation sentences.
VI 6
Observation sentences/compound/Quine: complex observation sentences: are not merely conjunctions of e.g. "There is blue, and there is pebble" but: "This pebble is blue". This connection is closer.
The observation sentence is the means of verbalizing a prediction, with which a theory is tested. It is the last controlling authority.
>Observation Sentence/Quine.
VI 7
It is the vehicle of all evidence. Dual function: simultaneous entry into the language. (language learning of the child).
Many observation sentences are not learned by simple conditioning or imitation, but by subsequent construction from complicated linguistic building blocks.
VI 8
But every sentence of observation could also be learned directly.
VI 18
Pure observation actually only provides us with negative evidence, namely by falsifying the categorical observation sentences implied by the respective theories.
I 44
Evidence/Stimulus/Quine: any realistic theory of evidence is inextricably linked to the psychology of stimulus and reaction. To call a stone a stone from close proximity is already an extreme case.
I 54
The question of what is there is the question of the evidence. The last arbitration board in this matter is the scientific method, amorphous as it may be.
X 23
Theory/Evidence/Quine: only one theory as a whole allows evidence. > Holism.