SYSTEM AND SYSTEMATIC STINKERS AND THE QUESTION OF THE TWO DOGMAS OF EMPIRICISM BY QUINE
SYSTEM AND SYSTEMATIC STINKERS AND THE QUESTION OF THE TWO DOGMAS OF EMPIRICISM BY QUINE

Summary/Abstract: Philosophy is an open-ended discipline and sometimes, it thrives on controversies. These controversies most times are created by scholars who come up and sting already and strongly accepted theories/traditions and this paper called scholars like these System and Systematic Stinkers of which Quine is one of those stingers. Quine expressed serious reservations about modern empiricism. He noticed that the reason why modern empiricism was able to affirm some statements as meaningful and others meaningless was because modern empiricism has been conditioned by analytic-synthetic cleavage and reductionism, which he called its (empiricism) dogmas. So, beaming these issues, this paper interrogated this contentions submission of Quine using the critical-analytic model. And it was apparent that Quine has changed the hard lining and the logical demarcation of the empiricists between analytic and synthetic statements into a distinction that should rather be made on pragmatic lines. He posited that to arrive at knowledge, the fields of human learning must align. This position not only shook the foundations of modern empiricism but it also shed more light on analytic philosophy and philosophy in general.

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