If we are not to have a doctrine of “knowledge by acquaintance” which will give us a foundation, and if we do not simply deny that there is such a thing as justification, then we will claim with Sellars that “science is rational not because it has a foundation, but because it is a self-correcting enterprise which can put any claim in jeopardy, though not all at once.”14 We will say with Quine that knowledge is not like an architectonic structure but like a field of force,15 and that there are no assertions which are immune from revision. We will be holistic not because we have a taste for
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