Full Idea
Nothing can fully play the role traditionally associated with analyticity, for much of that traditional role presupposed the doctrine of truth by convention.
Gist of Idea
Analyticity has lost its traditional role, which relied on truth by convention
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 09.8)
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.194
A Reaction
Sider rejects Quine's attack on analyticity, but accepts his critique of truth by convention.
Related Idea
Idea 15000 'It is raining' and 'it is not raining' can't be legislated, so we can't legislate 'p or ¬p' [Sider]