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“Undetermined” Limits of Knowledge in the Naturalized Conceptual Relativism of W.V.O. Quine
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The article presents a naturalized conceptual relativism of W.V.O. Quine in the perspective of the limits of knowledge. Quine was at the same time a conceptual relativist (we have many equivalent epistemological conceptual systems) and an empirical naturalist (he adopted a naturalistic concept of empirical content reduced to the stimuli received by our sensory surfaces as a part of linguistic behaviorism). Quine also directly addressed the issue of the limits of knowledge, but his main intention – as he points out – was above all the analysis and modification of the title problem, not the attempt to answer them. In short, according to Quine, this problem can be reduced to the linguistic context.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/i.2018.43.2.73-92
Date of publication: 2019-06-10 13:32:33
Date of submission: 2018-12-29 11:32:05
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