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Ideas for 'works', 'The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme' and 'Formal and Material Consequence'

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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths

11240	The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
	Full Idea: The notion of analytic truth is conspicuously absent in Aristotle.
	From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.5
	A reaction: Cf. Idea 11239.

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6399	Criteria of translation give us the identity of conceptual schemes [Davidson]
	Full Idea: Studying the criteria of translation is a way of focusing on criteria of identity for conceptual schemes.
	From: Donald Davidson (The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme [1974], p.184)
	A reaction: This is why it was an inspired idea of Quine's to make translation a central topic in philosophy. We must be cautious, though, about saying that the language is the conceptual scheme, as that leaves animals with no scheme at all.