Lexicon of Arguments

 

VI 22
Holism/Quine: holism simply combats the idea that a sentence has its own separate empirical content. ((s) This is moderate).
VI 22
Theory/GrünbaumVsHolism: one can always save a hypothesis by revising one's theoretical reserves of accepted sentences so that these, together with the threatened hypothesis, imply the absence of the prognosis.
Holism/QuineVsGrünbaum: such an assumption does not even occur in my work. It is all about mitigating the wrong implication.
Holism merely fights the naive idea that each sentence has its own separate empirical content.
Empirical Content/Quine: is rather something that sentences have in common and in which even mathematical sentences indirectly participate.
>Empirical Content/Quine.
VI 79
Quine: HolismVsAnalyticity.
XII 95
Translation/Theory/Holism/Quine: "strange translation": of whole theories, but not of the parts - because the assignment of subordinate clauses cannot be justified - several translations of subordinate clauses can produce the same empirical implications. > Translation, > Indeterminacy.