Discussion
Which of the following is not what Quine criticizes as "two dogmas of Empiricism" ?
Answer: D
The one Quine does not criticise as a dogma is Totality of our so called beliefs is man-made.
In 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' (1951), Quine attacks the analytic-synthetic distinction and reductionism: the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some construct of terms referring to immediate experience. Phenomenalism, the attempt (as in Carnap's Aufbau) to construct the world from sense experience, is the radical form of that reductionism he targets.
The last option is not a dogma but Quine's own conclusion: 'the totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs ... is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges'. That holism is what he puts in place of the two dogmas.
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