Quine and the Problem of Synonymy

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Author: Pagin, Peter

Source: Grazer Philosophische Studien, Fifty Years of Quine's Two Dogmas. Edited by Hans-Johann Glock, Kathrin Glür, and Geert Keil , pp. 171-197(27)

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Abstract:

On what seems to be the best interpretation, what Quine calls 'the problem of synonymy' in Two Dogmas is the problem of approximating the extension of our pretheoretic concept of synonymy by clear and respectable means. Quine thereby identified a problem which he himself did not think had any solution, and so far he has not been proven wrong. Some difficulties for providing a solution are discussed in this paper.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2003-07-01