In this paper,I want to argue for the importance,for Quine’s discovery of the idea of holism,of the period when he believed conventionalism in his thought history.It seems to me that it would have been almost impossi...In this paper,I want to argue for the importance,for Quine’s discovery of the idea of holism,of the period when he believed conventionalism in his thought history.It seems to me that it would have been almost impossible for him to get to the idea of holism,if he had not had a time when he had believed a certain(rather special)type of conventionalism.展开更多
文摘In this paper,I want to argue for the importance,for Quine’s discovery of the idea of holism,of the period when he believed conventionalism in his thought history.It seems to me that it would have been almost impossible for him to get to the idea of holism,if he had not had a time when he had believed a certain(rather special)type of conventionalism.