fundamental-seeming philosophical question, How much of our science
     is merely contributed by language and how much is a genuine reflection
     of reality?

TG: only to have it disappear in:

WVQ: some conceptual scheme peculiar to our own special language.

TG: I think Peirce was more interested in
    a &quot;conceptual scheme&quot; peculiar to that
    alluded to &quot;reality&quot;.

Hi Tom,

This begins one of the places where &quot;Quine appropriated Pierre Duhem's thesis&quot; --
as Jules Vuille