The Future of the A Priori
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چکیده
50 years ago, in “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” W. V. Quine (1953) launched a discussion of philosophical notions of analyticity and the a priori. On this occasion, I want to try to arrive at a judgment about the upshot of that discussion. I will not engage in exegesis. I do not think of Quine’s writings as sacred texts or as existing independently of the discussions of others then and now. These discussions in the aftermath of “Two Dogmas,” “Carnap on Logical Truth,” and Word and Object (Quine, 1960a, 1960b) raised serious challenges to philosophical reliance of the notions of analyticity and a priority, and led in turn to various defenses of these notions. Discussion continues to this day as in the recent collection edited by Boghossian and Peacocke (2000). I will not try to summarize or respond directly to any of this discussion. Instead, I will attempt to follow one aspect of Quine’s method (and Carnap’s) by trying to distinguish different senses of a notion, some which make good sense and others which do not. In particular, I will argue that
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