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I 194 ff
Gavagai: Quine asks how the sentences of the natives are to be distinguished into contingent empirical platitudes on the one hand and necessary conceptual truths on the other. For the natives it is enough to know which phrases are certainly true. They have no idea of conceptual, necessary truths. >Logical Truth.
I 195
If claims are justified by the community, not because of the nature of the inner episodes, it makes no sense to try to isolate privileged notions.
>Convention.
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Horwich I 453
Hermeneutical circle / Gavagai / RI / Davidson / RortyVsKripke: to go back and forth in the h.c. is no building block theory (like that of Kripke: correspondence between words and objects - causation has to do with the reference)) - instead it is more like the "reflective equilibrium" of Rawls. >Reflective Equilibrium, >Causal theory of reference, >Hermeneutics, >Hermeneutic circle.

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