Lexicon of Arguments

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I 188
Theory/Quine/Duhem: the contestability through experience (E.g. here is a black swan) cannot be distributed among the sentences of the theory.
>Quine-Duhem thesis, >Indeterminacy of meaning, >Gavagai.
I 189
This is actually an argument for the indeterminacy of meaning.
McDowellVsQuine: but the argument is only tenable if our observation language is distinct form our theoretical language, so that the relevant experience is not already expressed in the theoretical language.
>indeterminacy/McDowell, >Concept/McDowell, >Experience/McDowell, >Observation language.

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