Full Idea
Erasing the line between the analytic and the synthetic saved philosophy of language as a serious subject by showing how it could be pursued without what there cannot be: determinate meanings.
Gist of Idea
Erasing the analytic/synthetic distinction got rid of meanings, and saved philosophy of language
Source
comment on Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953]) by Donald Davidson - Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge p.158
Book Reference
'Epistemology - An Anthology', ed/tr. Sosa,E. /Kim,J. [Blackwell 2000], p.158
A Reaction
Note that this comes from the most famous modern champion of one of the main theories of meaning (as truth-conditions). Did anyone ever believe in reified objects called 'meanings'?
Related Idea
Idea 4717 If we abandon the analytic-synthetic distinction, scepticism about meaning may be inevitable [O'Grady]