ABSTRACT
The primary reference for my holism is ‘Two Dogmas’. (W.V.Quine)
In ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, Quine repudiates the analytic/ synthetic distinction (dogma 1) and reductionism (dogma 2). Dogma 1 purports to distinguish those statements that are true by virtue solely of their meanings, independently of how the world is (the analytic ones), from those statements that are true by virtue of their
meanings together with how the world is (the synthetic ones). Dogma 2 purports ‘that each statement, taken in isolation from its fellows, can admit of confirmation or infirmation at all’ (TDEc 41).
