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This paper is a reexamination of “Two Dogmas . . .” in the light of Quine’s ongoing debate with Carnap over analyticity. It shows, first, that ‘analytic’ is a technical term within Carnap’s epistemology. As such it is intelligible, and Carnap’s position can meet Quine’s objections. Second, it shows that the core of Quine’s objection is that he (Quine) has an alternative epistemology to advance, one which appears to make no room for analyticity. Finally, the paper shows that Quine’s alternative epistemology is itself open to very serious objections. Quine is not thereby refuted, but neither can Carnap’s analyticity be dismissed as dogma.
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W. V. Quine, ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, Philosophical Review LX (1951), pp. 20–43. Reprinted in Willard Van Orman Quine, From a Logical Point of View (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1953) pp. 20–46. For the convenience of the reader further references to this article will include page numbers for both printings, e.g., p. (39/42) where the page number(s) before the slash are those of Phil. Rev. There are three editions of From a Logical Point of View, but the page numbers remained the same.
W. V. Quine, ‘Notes on Existence and Necessity’, The Journal of Philosophy 40 (1943), pp. 113–27. This is largely a translation of part of his O sentido da nova l gica (Sao Paulo, Brazil: Martins, 1944).
‘Two Dogmas…’, p. (23/22–3).
Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Langage, Amethe Smeaton, (trans.), (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1937), p. 177f.
‘Two Dogmas…’, p. (26/26).
H. P. Grice and P. F. Strawson, ‘In Defense of a Dogma’, The Philosophical Review 65 (1956), pp. 152–3.
In Defense of a Dogma”, pp. 142–3.
Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947), pp. 56–9.
Two Dogmas…’, p. (31/32).
Two Dogmas…’, p. (32/33).
Two Dogmas…’, p. (–/35).
R. M. Martin, ‘On ‘Analytic”, Philosophical Studies III (1952), pp. 42–47.
‘Two Dogmas…’ p. (–/35).
Martin, p. 44.
Quine, ‘Concerning R. M. Martin on ‘Analytic’’, unpublished memorandum, p. 1.
Quine, ‘Concerning R. M. Martin on ‘Analytic’’, pp. 1–2.
Rudolf Carnap, ‘Quine on Analyticity’. This is manuscript [102–62–04] from the Rudolf Carnap Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh Libraries. The original, in a German shorthand, has been transcribed by Mr. Richard Nollan. The quotations which follow refer to the page numbers of the shorthand original and are translations by me from Mr. Nollan’s transcriptions. This paper is forthcoming in Dear Carnap, Dear Van. The Quine—Carnap Correspondence and Related Work, Richard Creath, editor, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990).
W. V. Quine, ‘Ontology and Analyticity’, unpublished. This is manuscript [102–62–09] in the Rudolf Carnap Collection, University of Pittsburgh.
W. V. Quine, ‘On Carnap’s Views on Ontology’, Philosophical Studies II (1951), pp. 65–72.
‘Quine on Analyticity’, p. 1.
‘Quine on Analyticity’, p. 4.
‘Quine on Analyticity’, p. 5.
‘Quine on Analyticity’, p. 6.
‘Quine on Analyticity’, p. 6.
Rudolf Carnap, Logical Foundations of Probability (Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1950), especially pp. 3–8, 37–42.
Logical Foundations of Probability, p. 37.
Logical Foundations of Probability, pp. 38–42.
‘Quine on Analyticity’, p. 8.
‘Two Dogmas…’, pp. (35–6/38).
Two Dogmas…’, p. (36/38).
‘Two Dogmas…’, p. (37/40).
Quine, ‘Mr. Strawson on Logical Theory’, Mind LXII (1953), p. 434.
‘Two Dogmas…’, p. (39/41–2).
Two Dogmas…’, p. (39/42).
Two Dogmas…’, p. (41/44).
W. V. Quine, ‘Epistemology Naturalized’, in Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 69–90.
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Creath, R. (1991). Every Dogma Has Its Day. In: Spohn, W. (eds) Erkenntnis Orientated: A Centennial Volume for Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3490-3_19
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