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- Title
EMPIRICAL EQUIVALENCE IN THE QUINE-CARNAP DEBATE.
- Authors
LOOMIS, ERIC J.
- Abstract
Alexander George has put forward a novel interpretation of the Quine-Carnap debate over analyticity. George argues that Carnap's claim that there exists an analytic-synthetic distinction was held by Carnap to be empty of empirical consequences. As a result, Carnap understood his position to be empirically indistinguishable from Quine's. Although George defends his interpretation only briefly, I show that it withstands further examination and ought to be accepted. The consequences of accepting it undermine a common understanding of Quine's criticism of Carnap, and I argue that it is difficult to find a perspective from which Quine can criticize Carnap in a non-question-begging way.
- Subjects
DEBATE; CARNAP, Rudolf, 1891-1970; QUINE, Willard Van Orman, 1908-2000; GEORGE, Alexander; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); CRITICISM
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2006, Vol 87, Issue 4, p499
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2006.00273.x