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"Analayticity Reconsidered" By Paul Boghossian Scholarly article by Paul Boghossian. Critiques commonly held beliefs on Quine's writings on analyticity. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/boghossian/papers/AnalyticityReconsid
Extractions: New York University I This is what many philosophers believe today about the analytic/synthetic distinction: In his classic early writings on analyticity in particular, in "Truth by Convention," "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," and "Carnap and Logical Truth" Quine showed that there can be no distinction between sentences that are true purely by virtue of their meaning and those that are not. In so doing, Quine devastated the philosophical programs that depend upon a notion of analyticity specifically, the linguistic theory of necessary truth, and the analytic theory of a priori knowledge. Quine himself, so the story continues, went on to espouse far more radical views about meaning, including such theses as meaning-indeterminacy and meaning-skepticism. However, it is not necessary, and certainly not appealing, to follow him on this trajectory. As realists about meaning, we may treat Quine's self-contained discussion in the early papers as the basis for a profound insight into the nature of meaning facts, rather than any sort of rejection of them. We may discard the notions of the analytic and the a priori without thereby buying in on any sort of unpalatable skepticism about meaning.
Extractions: Now you too can be a writer! by Alma A. Hromic October 21, 2002 Once upon a time there was a little girl who loved words. She read a great deal. She read some more. From the first cherished book on her bookshelves to date, she has owned, borrowed, read, reviewed, gloried in and panned thousands of books, in three different languages. These are a writer's dues - reading, writing, rejection. All of them need to be paid before a final acceptance, before the emerging of the writer from the chrysalis of someone who fiercely yearns to write into the butterfly of the published writer. (And then the butterfly finds out that it's hard work to keep flying, and that nectar is rare and difficult to find... but that's another story altogether.) That girl was me. I paid all those dues. It's a matter of pride for me to stand up and say that I am a writer when people ask me what I do for a living. Yes, it's hard. Yes, it's sometimes grounds for clinical depression. Those are the valleys of the land; I took them on when I accepted the occasional attainment of those glorious peaks, planting my flag on some personal mountain.
