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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... linguistic doctrine of necessary truth. Such statements were also thought to be a priori, because they were true in virtue of something that had to be known about by anyone who understood the statement. This positivist doctrine is ...
... linguistic doctrine of necessary truth. Such statements were also thought to be a priori, because they were true in virtue of something that had to be known about by anyone who understood the statement. This positivist doctrine is ...
9. lappuse
... linguistic framework, which may be either logical or factual. The framework in which we talk about physical objects is factual and in such frameworks questions about the entities are to be answered by empirical investigation. The ...
... linguistic framework, which may be either logical or factual. The framework in which we talk about physical objects is factual and in such frameworks questions about the entities are to be answered by empirical investigation. The ...
10. lappuse
... linguistic framework (1965[1935]). One interesting thing about this article is that for much of it Quine appears to be trying to make the idea he is criticising work. He explores various ways the idea that mathematics and logic are true ...
... linguistic framework (1965[1935]). One interesting thing about this article is that for much of it Quine appears to be trying to make the idea he is criticising work. He explores various ways the idea that mathematics and logic are true ...
11. lappuse
... linguistic behaviour of speakers. Quine's reply comes in 1960 with Word and Object. In chapter two he outlines the notion of stimulus meaning and shows that this notion is sufficient for the prediction and explanation of linguistic ...
... linguistic behaviour of speakers. Quine's reply comes in 1960 with Word and Object. In chapter two he outlines the notion of stimulus meaning and shows that this notion is sufficient for the prediction and explanation of linguistic ...
12. lappuse
... linguistics, both Noam Chomsky, and later Jerrold Katz, have defended analyticity (Chomsky 1975; Katz 1967, Katz 1974, Katz 1992, Katz 1997).IX Katz in particular has argued that a transformational grammar should include a semantic ...
... linguistics, both Noam Chomsky, and later Jerrold Katz, have defended analyticity (Chomsky 1975; Katz 1967, Katz 1974, Katz 1992, Katz 1997).IX Katz in particular has argued that a transformational grammar should include a semantic ...
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I THE POSITIVE VIEW | 25 |
II A DEFENSE | 125 |
III WORK FOR EPISTEMOLOGISTS | 191 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 229 |
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