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In this episode, we unpack Willard Van Orman Quine’s seminal essay, Two Dogmas of Empiricism, a powerful critique of two foundational ideas in analytic philosophy: the analytic/synthetic distinction and reductionism. Originally published in 1951, Quine argues that the distinction between analytic truths (true by meaning alone) and synthetic truths (true by virtue of fact) is untenable. He scrutinises the notion of synonymy and the circularity in definitions of analyticity, undermining the logical foundations of empiricism. Quine also challenges the idea that individual statements can be empirically verified in isolation, proposing instead that our beliefs face experience as a web of interconnected knowledge. This revolutionary view helped catalyse the shift toward naturalised epistemology and a more holistic understanding of science and language.