Star Trek Meets Quine: The Nature of Knowledge

Quine’s View on Knowledge and “Science-Fiction” Metaphysics: A Star Trek Exploration W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy radically transformed how we think about knowledge, meaning, and metaphysics. He questioned logical positivism’s strict criteria for what counts as meaningful knowledge and rejected the division between “analytic” (true by definition) and “synthetic” (empirically verifiable) statements.…