Quine's holism entails that no sharp boundary exists between analytic framework constraints and contingent empirical commitments, making the presupposition prohibition indeterminate in scope.

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Analytic framework constraints(as one type of belief that Quine's holism blurs together with others): Rules or assumptions that are true by definition or by the way we've set up our system of thinking, rather than by how the world actually is (like the rules of chess are true by definition of the game).
Contingent empirical commitments(as the other type of belief in the statement): Beliefs about how the world actually happens to be, based on observation and experience, that could be different (for example, 'it's raining today' is contingent because it could be sunny instead).
Holism (or Quine's holism)(as the main theory being referenced): The idea that beliefs and concepts don't stand alone—they're all connected in a web, so changing one belief might affect many others; you can't test a single belief in isolation from all your other beliefs.
Indeterminate in scope(describing how the presupposition prohibition becomes unclear under Quine's theory)

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