Quote: the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science and not statements (Frege) or terms (Locke)

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My counter suggestion, issuing essentially from Carnap's doctrine … the tribunal of sense experience not individually but … [also argued by P. Duhem, La Theories physique: son objet et sa structure (Paris: 1906, p. 303-328) and Lowinger, A., The Methodology of Pierre Duhem, Columbia University Press 1941, p. 132-40)]. … [p. 41] The two dogmas [of analyticity and verification] are, indeed, at … confirmatory experiences. In the extreme case where the … now impressed with how stubbornly the distinction between … [p. 42] My present suggestion is that it is … component in the truth of any individual statement. … The idea of defining a symbol in use … rather than the term, came with Frege to … is that even in taking the statement as … of science.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: it is nonsense to distinguish between a linguistic and a factual component to the truth of any one statement

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