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The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.
'Two Dogmas of Experience,' in Philosophical Review (1951). Reprinted in From a Logical Point of View (1953), 42.
See also: | Atomic Physics (3) | Belief (37) | Boundary (3) | Condition (8) | Edge (3) | Experience (57) | Fabric (3) | Geography (11) | History (61) | Knowledge (330) | Logic (66)
