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can and should be that just don't work in the post relativity environment.

I will give you the short story answer on that point. Quine has not provided an adequate resolution to those problems, indeed his holistic tendency only adds potential support to the kind of epistemic relativism this author is so sure he can defeat with "traditional scientific epistemology". In sum, the author is attempting to defraud all of philosophy, not just post modern, based on outdated ideas of what reason...

It got a temporary revivification in the guise of logical positivism, however, even within analytic philosophy this movement is seen to have failed. Not just within outlandish post modern Continental efforts. Unless the author believes sense data exist, in spite of the obvious myth of the given and private language argument issues. Or perhaps the author thinks Quine has solved these problems to satisfaction...

The author is perhaps going to make a claim here for the empiricism of Hume and its offshoots. As opposed to the Kantian epistemology. However, the tradition, was the Kantian epistemology and it was this that was impacted by 20th century science. Hume's empiricism had already been seen as wanting for a century or two..