Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. When Laurie Stern set out to adopt a baby from Guatemala in 1999, she thought the process would be pretty straightforward. Lots of people were doing it. But the adoption was held up just as she went to Guatemala to g ...
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The Two Dogmas Of Empiricism: Where Are The Arguments?
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In this second part of a three part series, I turn from the logical positivists and focus on Quine's actual arguments against the notion of analyticity. We get into the nitty-gritty of what was actually going on in The Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Quine employs a couple of different methods in his paper to bring down the notion of analytic truths: an attempt to show that all definitions of analyticity are circular which is an argument. But, perhaps most troubling, Quine relies on an occasional confession that he just prefers to operate in a minimalist framework, ‘desert landscapes’ if you will, where a workable concept of essential components to a given word’s meaning do not exist. But, is this enough?
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In this second part of a three part series, I turn from the logical positivists and focus on Quine's actual arguments against the notion of analyticity. We get into the nitty-gritty of what was actually going on in The Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Quine employs a couple of different methods in his paper to bring down the notion of analytic truths: an attempt to show that all definitions of analyticity are circular which is an argument. But, perhaps most troubling, Quine relies on an occasional confession that he just prefers to operate in a minimalist framework, ‘desert landscapes’ if you will, where a workable concept of essential components to a given word’s meaning do not exist. But, is this enough?
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