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- Title
Analyticity and the Deviant Logician: Williamson's Argument from Disagreement.
- Authors
Flanagan, Brian
- Abstract
One way to discredit the suggestion that a statement is true just in virtue of its meaning is to observe that its truth is the subject of genuine disagreement. By appealing to the case of the unorthodox philosopher, Timothy Williamson has recast this response as an argument foreclosing any appeal to analyticity. Reconciling Quine's epistemological holism with his treatment of the 'deviant logician', I show that we may discharge the demands of charitable interpretation even while attributing trivial semantic error to Williamson's philosophers. Williamson's effort to generalize the argument from disagreement therefore fails.
- Subjects
LOGICIANS; WILLIAMSON, Timothy, 1955-; ARGUMENT; THEORY of knowledge; HOLISM; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Acta Analytica, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 3, p345
- ISSN
0353-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12136-012-0172-2