Single Idea 21338

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

Full Idea

I am not concerned even to avoid the trivial extreme of sustaining a law by changing a meaning; for the cleavage between meaning and fact is part of what ...I am questioning.

Gist of Idea

I will even consider changing a meaning to save a law; I question the meaning-fact cleavage

Source

Willard Quine (Letters [1962], 1962.06.01)


A Reaction

[Letter to Adolf Grünbaum. Found on Twitter] A strikingly helpful expression of his position by Quine. We should take about the 'meaning/fact distinction' in order to understand clearly what is going on here.