A fourth solution to a Victorian anthropology paradox: underdeterminism

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Historian of anthropology George Stocking tells us: from the point of view of parts of the Victorian middle class, Victorian society was highly evolved yet also contained savage components. Why don’t they change their ways, or why didn’t they? There is a Quinean solution.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
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Two dogmas of empiricism.W. V. Quine - 1987 - In Paul K. Moser (ed.), A priori knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press.

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