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QUINEAN METAPHYSICS
galeria24 wrote 7 hours ago: eliminative language, one in which all definitions of this kind have been carried out, would be too … more →
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RADICAL TRANSLATION AND ITS INDETERMINACY
galeria24 wrote 12 hours ago: Fully fledged observation sentences, of course, are part of a more sophisticated theory and they do … more →
FICTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT
galeria24 wrote 20 hours ago: Kathleen Stock It is not unusual for a reader of a novel, especially that of the nineteenth century … more →
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THE ANALYTIC–SYNTHETIC
DISTINCTION
galeria24 wrote 2 days ago: The last chapter indicated the pivotal role that the analytic–synthetic distinction plays in Carnap’ … more →
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BEYOND THE OBSERVATION SENTENCES
galeria24 wrote 3 days ago: a whole, the child might conceivably utter ‘‘My hand hurts’’ on an appropriate occasion, though unai … more →
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RADICAL TRANSLATION AND ITS INDETERMINACY
galeria24 wrote 3 days ago: It is, in any case, notable that Quine claims in ‘‘On the Reasons for the Indeterminacy of Translati … more →
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MINDS, BELIEFS, AND MODALITY
galeria24 wrote 3 days ago: An idea which is often connected with causality is that of natural or physical necessity, or of a la … more →
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RECONCEIVING EPISTEMOLOGY
galeria24 wrote 3 days ago: to other noises, or to both. Not even all of our noises that are systematically related to stimulati … more →
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MINDS, BELIEFS, AND MODALITY
galeria24 wrote 3 days ago: The evidence is not assembled deliberately. One empathizes, projecting oneself into Tom’s situation … more →
COGNITIVE REWARDS
galeria24 wrote 4 days ago: A growing body of research in psychology indicates that certain narrative devices often associated w … more →
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THEORY AND EVIDENCE
galeria24 wrote 4 days ago: plausibility, is much harder to make sense of than may appear on the surface. This issue will occupy … more →
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BEYOND THE OBSERVATION SENTENCES
galeria24 wrote 4 days ago: them when asked. Speaking of objects, however—abstract objects, physical objects, or even sensory ob … more →
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
galeria24 wrote 5 days ago: —— ‘‘Testability and Meaning’’, Philosophy of Science 3 (1936), pp. 419–71; and 4 (1937), pp 1–40. — … more →
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EXTENSIONALITY, REFERENCE, AND SINGULAR TERMS
galeria24 wrote 5 days ago: gains seem to be bought at a high price, namely a loss of expressive power as compared with ordinary … more →
Move round this dark
galeria24 wrote 5 days ago: . (Once again we have a parallel – ‘twilight years’ – in everyday use … more →
What he singularly fails
galeria24 wrote 6 days ago: What he singularly fails to bring forward is any reason for supposing that the felt disinterest dist … more →
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RECONCEIVING EPISTEMOLOGY
galeria24 wrote 6 days ago: the ocular surface’’ (WO, p. 2) In this sort of way, he claims, our supposedly immediate knowledge o … more →
In this sense, then,
galeria24 wrote 6 days ago: In this sense, then, the grounds of dependent beauty may appear ‘external to ourselves’ (that is, ly … more →
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THE ANALYTIC–SYNTHETIC DISTINCTION
Synonymy in Natural Languages’’, p. 242), and producing behavioural criteria
for the notions of synonymy analyticity. Quine would not, however,
accept Carnap’s technique questioning a native informant about
imaginary situations as being satisfactory empirical clarification
notion meaning general. There is no reason to think that method
which works some easy cases—such Einhorn/Kobold case—can be
relied upon give us for unique translations
Quine, indeed, suggests do not general suffice
determine translation one language into another; this his
famous, or infamous, thesis indeterminacy translation, which
subject Chapter 8.7 Some commentators have seen crucial
the disagreement between Carnap over analyticity, thus differences their views quite generally.8 It should clear from
what I already said agree. take issues discussed
in sections III IV below, put forward more fundamental reasons Quine’s with Carnap.
It notable Quine, last works, describes
thesis ‘‘conjecture’’. (See H&S, 728.) This
appropriate attitude Quinean towards objectivity
and also perhaps question whether there
defensible notion sentence-meaning, agnosticism. (Some possible late view, agnosticism, will
8, section IV.) But agnosticism here very much favours
position meaning. If tenable position at all then we
cannot simply granted. issue remains
unsettled available. To justified
using an idea such our scientific philosophical endeavours
we must positive assurance it makes sufficiently sense;
not enough uncertain does not.
Finally, section, let consider can clarify synonymy, thence by appeal
idea definition. Dictionaries are full definitions, but insists
that fact sheds theoretical light on synonymy: even if lexicographer constructs dictionary entry belief records
synonymy, still content belief, what is, thereby
clarified (see TDE, FLPV, 24). may, nevertheless, seem
making substantial concession here: know how apply, good
account it. Except purposes argument,
I real concession. The significant one. Should
galeria24 wrote 6 days ago: . The distinction is essential to Carnap’s method of disposing of metaphysics, and to his way of acc … more →
