Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic DistinctionOUP Oxford, 2008. gada 28. febr. - 250 lappuses The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple. It is a distinction between two different kinds of sentence. Synthetic sentences are true in part because of the way the world is, and in part because of what they mean. Analytic sentences - like all bachelors are unmarried and triangles have three sides - are different. They are true in virtue of meaning, so no matter what the world is like, as long as the sentence means what it does, it will be true. This distinction seems powerful because analytic sentences seem to be knowable in a special way. One can know that all bachelors are unmarried, for example, just by thinking about what it means. But many twentieth-century philosophers, with Quine in the lead, argued that there were no analytic sentences, that the idea of analyticity didn't even make sense, and that the analytic/synthetic distinction was therefore an illusion. Others couldn't see how there could fail to be a distinction, however ingenious the arguments of Quine and his supporters. But since the heyday of the debate, things have changed in the philosophy of language. Tools have been refined, confusions cleared up, and most significantly, many philosophers now accept a view of language - semantic externalism - on which it is possible to see how the distinction could fail. One might be tempted to think that ultimately the distinction has fallen for reasons other than those proposed in the original debate. In Truth in Virtue of Meaning, Gillian Russell argues that it hasn't. Using the tools of contemporary philosophy of language, she outlines a view of analytic sentences which is compatible with semantic externalism and defends that view against the old Quinean arguments. She then goes on to draw out the surprising epistemological consequences of her approach. |
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... expression—everywhere in the. 6 Eric Foner, 'American Freedom in a Global Age', The American Historical Review, vol. 106, no. 1 (February 2001), p. 7. 7 Eric Foner, 'The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation', The Journal of ...
... expression—everywhere in the. 6 Eric Foner, 'American Freedom in a Global Age', The American Historical Review, vol. 106, no. 1 (February 2001), p. 7. 7 Eric Foner, 'The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation', The Journal of ...
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... expression—everywhere in the world....The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his [sic] own way—everywhere in the world....The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings ...
... expression—everywhere in the world....The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his [sic] own way—everywhere in the world....The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings ...
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... Freedom as the origin and expression of a single, capacious, and binding culture...set against ...Freedom as the licence to permit a diversity of multiple coexisting cultures. r Freedom viewed and used as a motivating cause and Freedom 25.
... Freedom as the origin and expression of a single, capacious, and binding culture...set against ...Freedom as the licence to permit a diversity of multiple coexisting cultures. r Freedom viewed and used as a motivating cause and Freedom 25.
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... expression of a group or communal identity privileging a collective claim to substantive liberty. The issues arising from these disjunctions are a testament to the way that the meanings, usages, traditions, and logics of this iconic ...
... expression of a group or communal identity privileging a collective claim to substantive liberty. The issues arising from these disjunctions are a testament to the way that the meanings, usages, traditions, and logics of this iconic ...
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... expression to, an identity rich in axiomatic principle and experiential narratives. The duality inherent in the concept and usage of freedom continues to shape political argument. In some circumstances, ideas can seem to lag behind ...
... expression to, an identity rich in axiomatic principle and experiential narratives. The duality inherent in the concept and usage of freedom continues to shape political argument. In some circumstances, ideas can seem to lag behind ...
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