In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: This thinker tackled the "Plato's Beard" problem in one of his works, in which he refutes the fictional philosopher McX who claims that Pegasus exists. He argued that not just individual statements, but entire fields, are verified in his "holism." He is the first namesake of an "indispensability argument" for mathematical realism. This man analyzed how the word "gavagai" corresponds to seeing a rabbit run in different cultural contexts and under linguistic barriers, which he termed (*) "indeterminacy of translation." In his magnum opus, he attacked reductionism and the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements. For 10 points, name this American author of Ontological Relativity, Word and Object, and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."
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Social Science