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Description: Truth in Virtue of Meaning : A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction, Paperback by Russell, Gillian, ISBN 0199694737, ISBN-13 9780199694730, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple. It is a distinction between two different kinds of sentence. Synthetic sentences are true in part because of the way the world is, and in part because of what they mean. Analytic sentences--like all bachelors are unmarried and triangles have three sides--are different. They are true in virtue of meaning, so no matter what the world is like, as long as the sentence means what it does, it will be true. This distinction seems powerful because analytic sentences seem to be knowable in a special way. One can know that all bachelors are unmarried, for example, just by thinking about what it means. But many twentieth-century philosophers, with Quine in the lead, argued that there were no analytic sentences, that the idea of analyticity didn't even make sense, and that the analytic/synthetic distinction was therefore an illusion. Others couldn't see how there could fail to be a distinction, however ingenious the arguments of Quine and his supporters. But since the heyday of the debate, things have changed in the philosophy of language. Tools have been refined, confusions cleared up, and most significantly, many philosophers now accept a view of language--semantic externalism--on which it is possible to see how the distinction could fail. One might be tempted to think that ultimately the distinction has fallen for reasons other than those proposed in the original debate. In Truth in Virtue of Meaning, Gillian Russell argues that it hasn't. Using the tools of contemporary philosophy of language, she outlines a view of analytic sentences which is compatible with semantic externalism and defends that view against the old Quinean arguments. She then goes on to draw out the surprising epistemological consequences of her approach.

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Book Title: Truth in Virtue of Meaning : A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic

Number of Pages: 250 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Truth in Virtue of Meaning : a Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Subject: Epistemology, Language, General, Linguistics / General

Publication Year: 2011

Item Height: 0.5 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 10.6 Oz

Subject Area: Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

Author: Gillian Russell

Item Length: 8.5 in

Item Width: 5.4 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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