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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

8559	Analysis aims at internal relationships, not reduction [Shoemaker]
	Full Idea: The goal of philosophical analysis should not be reductive analysis but rather the charting of internal relationships.
	From: Sydney Shoemaker (Causality and Properties [1980], §07)
	A reaction: See Idea 8558 for an attempt by Shoemaker himself. The idea that there has never been a successful analysis has become a truism among pessimistic analytic philosophers. But there are wonderful relationship maps (Quine, Davidson, Lewis, Lowe).