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Indeterminacy, A Priority, and Analyticity in the Quinean Critique
Author(s) -
Rattan Gurpreet
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00340.x
Subject(s) - indeterminacy (philosophy) , criticism , epistemology , interpretation (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , philosophy , positive economics , economics , political science , law , linguistics , history , archaeology
: Significant issues remain for understanding and evaluating the Quinean critique of the analytic/synthetic distinction. These issues are highlighted in a puzzling mismatch between the common philosophical attitude toward the critique and its broader intellectual legacy. A discussion of this mismatch sets the larger context for criticism of a recent tradition of interpretation of the critique. I argue that this tradition confuses the roles and relative importance of indeterminacy, a priority, and analyticity in the Quinean critique.