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In this dissertation, the thesis of Duhem-Quine holism will be intoduced and its similarity and dissimilarity in epistemolical webs of Duhem and Quine will be enumerated and criticisms that is taken to this thesis will be examined. In chapter 1 and 2, the fundamental characteristics of Duhem and Quine viewpoints will be introduced in sequence. This chapter is introduction to more accurate understanding of holism each of them and better Comparison together. In chapter 3, we will introduce their holism and we’ll see what the results of their holism in falsification and confirmation of different Hypotheses are. In chapter 4, we will discuss about discrepancy between their viewpoints and we... 

Few years the traditional medicine in our society is considered: Traditional colleges have been established, Traditional medicine has been established and numerous media programs produced by experts in traditional medicine. All this indicates is that traditional medicine seek lost credibility and gain its rightful place in our society today. One of the most important aspects of the relationship between traditional medicine with modern medicine. On the one hand trying to make traditional medicine with modern medicine can be defined as complementary medicine. In this regard, first of all defined traditional medicine as a specialty, and efforts to rebuild the achievements of traditional... 

Semantic Holism is one of the most effective and wide spreading topics in philosophy of language. W.V.Quine with his “Two Dogmas” article has coined semantic holism with his name. After Quine, semantic holism absorbed many attentions in the philosophy of language and also other fields. Even, in neural networks and artificial intelligence, holistic presumptions about meaning are accepted. Nevertheless, arguments for meaning holism and their validation has not tended enough. Fodor and Lepore, in Semantic Holism; A Shopper’s Guide, are trying to reconstruct arguments for semantic holism that had been presented by philosophers like Quine, Davidson, Dennet, Lewis, and Churchland and then...