[PHIL 215] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (49 pages long)
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The analytic/synthetic distinction: reductionism: every meaningful statement can be reduced to a construct of immediate experience. When we come to recognize that they are false, Quine thinks that we should then see metaphysics as continuous with science and should also be inclined toward pragmatism. The first dogma: hume, kant, the logical positivists, accepted the analytic/synthetic distinction. The distinction is supposed to be captured by saying that analytic statements are true in virtue of the meanings of their constituent words alone, while synthetic statements are not they require a contribution from. The world. : here is a picture: true statements have two components: a purely conventional meaning and a corresponding fact in the world. Example: the statement brutus killed caesar" would be false if the world had been di erent in certain ways, but it would also be false if the word killed" happened rather to have the sense of.
