Epistemic Analyticity: A Defense

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Author: Boghossian, Paul A.

Source: Grazer Philosophische Studien, Fifty Years of Quine's Two Dogmas. Edited by Hans-Johann Glock, Kathrin Glür, and Geert Keil , pp. 15-35(21)

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Abstract:

The paper is a defense of the project of explaining the a priori via the notion of meaning or concept possession. It responds to certain objections that have been made to this project—in particular, that there can be no epistemically analytic sentences that are not also metaphysically analytic, and that the notion of implicit definition cannot explain a priori entitlement. The paper goes on to distinguish between two different ways in which facts about meaning might generate facts about entitlement—inferential and constitutive. It concludes by outlining a theory of the latter.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2003-07-01