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13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
Full Idea: The golden age of analytic philosophy (mid 20th c) was when necessary, a priori and analytic were one, all possibility was linguistic possibility, and the linguistic turn gave philosophy a respectable subject matter (language), and precision and rigour. | |
From: Scott Soames (Significance of the Kripkean Nec A Posteriori [2006], p.166) | |
A reaction: Gently sarcastic, because Soames is part of the team who have put a bomb under this view, and quite right too. Personally I think the biggest enemy in all of this lot is not 'language' but 'rigour'. A will-o-the-wisp philosophers dream of. |