QUINE, W.V.O.

Quine: beliefs face the tribunal of experience as a corporate body; a recalcitrant experience can be accommodated by revising almost any node, if other revisions are made. CoCA's Lexicon is a Quinean web. Revise one entry and the cross-references shift; revise enough, and a different theology emerges, internally consistent. The Provisional Collective audits the web. The audit is itself a web entry.