This work identifies two classes of statements exemplified by "unmarried men are unmarried" and "bachelors are unmarried.
This work notes that "the word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound." This work imagines science as a force field with experience at the boundary and "recalcitrant truths" closer to the edges. Inspired by issues with Carnap's Aufbau, this work claims that sense-data can only confirm statements about the world as a "corporate body" and it discusses how interchangeability salva veritate is not enough to imply "cognitive synonymy." This work discusses how a certain class of statements are the limiting case which are confirmed no matter what in the (*) verification theory of meaning. This work identifies two classes of statements exemplified by "unmarried men are unmarried" and "bachelors are unmarried." This work's title concepts are reductionism and the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements. For 10 points, name this essay that attacks logical positivism, written by W. V. O. Quine.
This work notes that "the word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound.
Two Dogmas of Empiricism