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| 21338 | I will even consider changing a meaning to save a law; I question the meaning-fact cleavage |
| Full Idea: I am not concerned even to avoid the trivial extreme of sustaining a law by changing a meaning; for the cleavage between meaning and fact is part of what ...I am questioning. | |||
| From: Willard Quine (Letters [1962], 1962.06.01) | |||
| A reaction: [Letter to Adolf Grünbaum. Found on Twitter] A strikingly helpful expression of his position by Quine. We should take about the 'meaning/fact distinction' in order to understand clearly what is going on here. |