GRE阅读练习每日一篇(五十二)_GRE阅读

GRE阅读练习每日一篇(五十二)

　　17. The author of the passage is primarily concerned with presenting

　　criticisms of Quine s views on the proper conceptualization of empiricism

　　evidence to support Quine s claims about the problems inherent in classical empiricism

　　an account of Quine s counterproposal to one of the traditional assumptions of classical empiricism

　　an overview of classical empiricism and its contributions to Quine s alternate understanding of empiricism

　　a history of classical empiricism and Quine s reservations about it

　　18. According to Quine s conception of empiricism, if a new observation were to contradict some statement already within our system of knowledge, which of the following would be true?

　　The new observation would be rejected as untrue.

　　Both the observation and the statement in our system that it contradicted would be discarded.

　　New observations would be added to our web of statements in order to expand our system of knowledge.

　　The observation or some part of our web of statements would need to be adjusted to resolve the contradiction.

　　An entirely new field of knowledge would be created.

　　19. As described in the passage, Quine s specific argument against classical empiricism would be most strengthened if he did which of the following?