What follows gives a taste of Quine’s thinking that lies below what is in my first chapter on him (here). My philosophically retarded mind can’t now grasp much of what Id previously written here, even my own interjections. I am afraid to omit it for fear of leaving something important out. It provides an example of the philosphizing of the modern analytical philosopher. But to me, although it’s intellectually terribly…
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‘Philosophy’ has never been Wisdom, 30: Quine 1
Quine is famous for saying that there is actually no difference between ‘analytic’ and ‘synthetic’ statements. The difference had been introduced by Hume in the 1730s (or by even earlier empiricists) but only so named by Kant in 1781. It had since then become gospel in Philosophy. The example of analytic statement that everyone gives is ‘All bachelors are unmarried’, which has to be true because of the definition of…
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