Reconciling Quine and Empiricism

I haven't blogged much recently because kittens keep one busy, and I've had some interesting work to do at work. Just to show I haven't forsaken my reader, I am posting a link to this excellent piece on Butterflies and Wheels - I hope OB won't mind. I found that it really illuminated my thoughts about epistemological rationalism and relativism, and also explained that Hume quote about a rational man believing in a creator. I still think there is something to be said for the a priori and a posteriori distinction, I think there is a flaw in Quines argument - and if I could articulate it I would probably be a philosopher rather than an apparatchik.

Interesting Times

Peter Collin said that we would have an interesting time with the kittens. I suspect he was thinking of the Chinese curse! I have a suspicion that relativity was 'revealed' to Einstein when he saw four kittens proceed on different vectors. We are in a sort of 'kittenshock'; we thought we could confine the little darlings but we find that most of the time we haven't the slightest notion where they are lurking and can only retrieve them with the lure of cordon bleu cuisine. I own that Rastaban must have consumed more steak tartare in his 9 weeks than have I in a lifetime.