Single Idea 14473

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

Full Idea

Quine's attack argues against the Fregean attempt to define 'analyticity' in terms of synonymy - where analytical truths are logical truths ('unmarried men are unmarried'), or become logical truths by synonymous replacement ('bachelors are unmarried').

Gist of Idea

Quine attacks the Fregean idea that we can define analyticity through synonyous substitution

Source

report of Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953]) by Amie L. Thomasson - Ordinary Objects 02.1

Book Reference

Thomasson,Amie L.: 'Ordinary Objects' [OUP 2010], p.30


A Reaction

This is a very helpful explanation of what is going on in Quine. Why won't philosophers explain clearly what they are attacking, before they attack it?