Quine seems to maintain that there is no sharp distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences, and also that 'analytic' and 'synthetic' have no meaning. the dependence of these concepts on 'meaning' is used to show the incompatibility of these two interpretations of quine's conception of the analytic and the synthetic, and to show that both have a paradoxical character of their own. that may threat reductionist semantics as a whole. still the need for a totally different (rationalistic, essentialistic) semantics may be obviated by a reasonable explication of a vague distinction between the analytic and the synthetic.
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Kaptein, H. J. (1979). De Semantiek Van “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Wijsbegeerte, 71 67-80.
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