[lit-ideas] Re: Reductive vs. Reductionist
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:52:48 -0500
I did just enough Googling about the above to know that I don't know. If I
only have time to read one book on Quine's positions, what should it be?
The "opaque" and "transparent" context intrigues me as does the notion of
rendering analytic and synthetic as indistinguishable. Does Quine take
nominalism a step further?
Julie Campbell
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Donal: Where does Quine point this out?
>
> Donal was inquiring about the old "salva veritate" issue. How many
> letters in the words "bachelor" and "unmarried man," etc.
>
> In "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," Quine argued that analyticity is
> dependent upon notions of meaning. He concluded that strategies for
> meaning depend on notions of synonymy and definition, each of which has
> worries. Some think he demolished the distinction between analytic and
> synthetic statements.
>
> Eric
>
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