Single Idea 14998

[catalogued under 19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths]

Full Idea

To suggest that analytic truths make statements about linguistic conventions is a nonstarter; statements about linguistic conventions are contingent, whereas the statements made by typical analytic sentences are necessary.

Gist of Idea

Conventions are contingent and analytic truths are necessary, so that isn't their explanation

Source

Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 06.5)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.101


A Reaction

That 'anything yellow is extended' is not just a convention should be fairly obvious, and it is obviously necessary. But we can say that bachelors are necessarily unmarried men - given the current convention.