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Single Idea 8900
[filed under theme 19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
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Full Idea
Perhaps the controversial notion of analyticity can be dispensed with, in our definition of observation sentences, in favour of the straightforward attitude of community-wide acceptance.
Gist of Idea
In observation sentences, we could substitute community acceptance for analyticity
Source
Willard Quine (Epistemology Naturalized [1968], p.86)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ontological Relativity and Other Essays' [Columbia 1969], p.86
A Reaction
That might be a reasonable account of 'bachelors'. If the whole community accepts 'God exists', does that make it analytic? If a whole (small!) community claims to actually observe a ghost or a flying saucer, is that then analytic?
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[rejection of sharp distinction between real and verbal assertion]:
20959
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Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject
[Schleiermacher]
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21763
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When we explicate the category of being, we watch a new category emerge
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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2515
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Frege fails to give a concept of analyticity, so he fails to explain synthetic a priori truth that way
[Katz on Frege]
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19050
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Holism in language blurs empirical synthetic and empty analytic sentences
[Quine]
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8900
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In observation sentences, we could substitute community acceptance for analyticity
[Quine]
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21338
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I will even consider changing a meaning to save a law; I question the meaning-fact cleavage
[Quine]
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9366
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Quine's attack on analyticity undermined linguistic views of necessity, and analytic views of the a priori
[Quine, by Boghossian]
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14473
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Quine attacks the Fregean idea that we can define analyticity through synonyous substitution
[Quine, by Thomasson]
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7321
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The last two parts of 'Two Dogmas' are much the best
[Miller,A on Quine]
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8803
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Erasing the analytic/synthetic distinction got rid of meanings, and saved philosophy of language
[Davidson on Quine]
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17737
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The analytic needs excessively small units of meaning and empirical confirmation
[Quine, by Jenkins]
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1622
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Did someone ever actually define 'bachelor' as 'unmarried man'?
[Quine]
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1624
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If we try to define analyticity by synonymy, that leads back to analyticity
[Quine]
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8201
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The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction
[Quine]
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20299
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If we claim direct insight to what is analytic, how do we know it is not sub-consciously empirical?
[Rey]
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14619
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The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part?
[Fine,K]
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15016
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Analyticity has lost its traditional role, which relied on truth by convention
[Sider]
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