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Chapter 7 - Reading Quine’s Claim that Carnap’s Term “Semantical Rule” Is Meaningless

from Part III - Carnap and Quine on Logic, Language, and Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2023

Sean Morris
Affiliation:
Metropolitan State University of Denver
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Many informed readers of Carnap (and Quine) have taken Quine’s objections to Carnap’s account of analyticity in terms of semantical rules to have failed. This paper counters this, arguing that Quine actually saw himself as applying Carnap’s own philosophical standards more strictly than Carnap himself did. Quine was, as he later reported, “just being more carnapian than Carnap.” This paper offers a careful analysis of Section 4 of “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” which shows Carnap conflating two senses of “semantical rule.” Although the first is clear, Quine sees it as being of no use in defining analyticity. The second, though integral to Carnap’s method of defining analyticity, Quine shows to be left unexplained by Carnap’s definitions.

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Print publication year: 2023

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