 thus including statements containing other material object statements like \(M\). Even when the relativization to other background material object statements isn’t explicit, the probability statement would seem to be implicitly relative to some background assumption of material normality. In other words, Lewis would have abandoned reductionism for Quine’s holistic conclusion that individual material object statements like \(P\), apart from other material object statements, have “no fund of experiential implications to call their own” (Quine 1969, 79).