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W.V.O. Quine is central to the discourse on %Truth, as he developed the 'web of beliefs' model of coherentism [1], critiqued the ability of scientific knowledge to achieve absolute truth [2], and proposed a naturalized epistemology that faces challenges regarding the establishment of normative truth [3].
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Naturalized epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimW. V. O. Quine concludes that studies of scientific knowledge concerned with meaning or truth fail to achieve the Cartesian goal of certainty, noting the failure of those in or sympathetic to The Vienna Circle to reduce mathematics to pure logic.
perspectiveJaegwon Kim contends that W.V.O. Quine's naturalized epistemology cannot establish truth because it relies on purely descriptive statements about sensory input–output relationships rather than normative criteria.
Virtue Epistemology, Anyone? - The Philosophers' Magazine - philosophersmag.com 1 fact
claimCoherentism maintains that truth is arrived at through the interdependence of a 'web of beliefs,' a concept attributed to W.V.O. Quine.