Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction

by Gillian Russell and Gillian Russell

Book Overview

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple. It is a distinction between two different kinds of sentence. Synthetic sentences are true in part because of the way the world is, and in part because of what they mean. Analytic sentences--like all bachelors are unmarried and triangles have three sides--are different. They are true in virtue of meaning, so no matter what the world is like, as long as the sentence means what it does, it will be true...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199694737
• ISBN13: 9780199694730
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"