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Single Idea 2515

[catalogued under 19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique]

Full Idea

Frege's approach provides no concept of analyticity (hence Quine's attack), so there is no notion of the analytic a priori under which to bring the metaphysician's synthetic a priori propositions.

Gist of Idea

Frege fails to give a concept of analyticity, so he fails to explain synthetic a priori truth that way

Source

comment on Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Jerrold J. Katz - Realistic Rationalism Int.xxi

Book Reference

Katz,Jerrold J.: 'Realistic Rationalism' [MIT 2000], p.-14


A Reaction

So Frege might have been a logical positivist, if only he had given himself the right tools for the job?

Related Idea

Idea 9370 A statement is analytic if substitution of synonyms can make it a logical truth [Frege, by Boghossian]