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[JKSCHW at aol.com]

No no, I am a good Quinean. But just because the distinction is rough, ready, 
and provisional doesn't mean that it can't be made in a rough, ready, and 
provisional way. Quine thinks that all beliefs are revisable, not that all 
beliefs are empirical. --jks

In a message dated 9/6/00 7:33:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
farmelantj at juno.com writes:

<< This is of course assuming that Quine was all wet with

 his "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" in which he sought to

 undermine the whole analytic/synthetic distinction

 as well as presumably such distinctions as the

 one between theoretical and empirical facts.

 

 Jim

* * * 

  I had said: 

 

 Empirical facts are those known through experience, as opposed to a priori

 facts like 2+2=4, known in some other way. There may also be a contrast with

 a theoretical fact, a fact derived from the structure of a theory. If that

 is a valid contrast, the constant velocity of c is a theoretical rather than

 a merely empirical fact. --jks

  >>