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Propositions and Analyticity

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It has been nearly forty years since the publication of “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (Quine [1951/1961]). Despite some vigorous rebuttals during that interval,1 Quine’s rejection of analyticity still prevails--in that philosophers en masse have either joined Quine in repudiating the “analytic”/“synthetic” distinction or remained (however mutinously) silent and made no claims of analyticity.

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Lycan, W.G. (1994). Propositions and Analyticity. In: Modality and Meaning. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0936-9_11

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