Willard Van Orman Quine

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naturalized epistemology, where it is seen to underlie both communication
and induction.
I see naturalized epistemology rather as enlivening than as superseding
its eponym. [But] I have written at least twice (e.g., in PTb 19)
that I stretch the term perhaps unduly.
notes
1. Not ‘empathic’, please. That, like ‘phonemic’ for ‘phonematic’, smacks
of “little Latin and less Greek.”
2. “The Problem of Meaning in linguistics,” presented at a linguistics conference
in 1951 and published in From a Logical Point of View in 1953.
The quotation is from p. 63.
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