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Re: Analytical truth redefined so that Quine can understand that bachelors are unmarried

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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:32:31 +0000
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by: HenHanna - Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:32 UTC

olcott wrote:

> Most people construe the term "absolute truth" as necessarily coming
> from the mind of God, thus atheists reject absolute truth. Philosophy
> leaves religion out of it and says that analytical truth can be verified
> on the basis of its meaning.

> Because Quine had such a hard time understanding that bachelors are
> unmarried in his "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" I have adapted the
> definition of analytical truth so that it can be more directly divided
> from other forms of truth:

> (1) Expressions of language that are defined to be true and
> (2) Expressions of language that have been derived on the basis of
> applying truth preserving operations.

yes, WVQ's crusade against Analycity.

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