Once More on Analytic vs. Synthetic

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Authors	MATERNA Pavel
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Logic and logical philosophy
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation	MATERNA, Pavel. Once More on Analytic vs. Synthetic. Logic and logical philosophy. Toruń, Poland: Nicholas Copernicus University Press, 2007, vol. 16, No 1, p. 3-43. ISSN 1425-3305.
Field	Philosophy and religion
Keywords	analytic; synthetic; intensions; constructions; concepts; pragmatics
Description	The boundary between analytic and synthetic sentences is well definable. Quine's attempt to make it vague is based on a misunderstanding: instead of freeing semantics from shortcomings found, e.g. in Carnap's work, Quine actually rejects semantics of natural language and replaces it by behavioristically articulated pragmatics. Semantics of natural language as a logical analysis is however possible and it can justify hard and fast lines between analyticity and syntheticity.
Related projects:	Translation of Czech Sentences to Transparent Intensional Logic Constructions