I probably should have voted for “Other,” but I voted for “Lean toward: yes” because I still outright agree in certain contexts.
Quine’s Two Dogmas is certainly enough to make me doubt the usefulness of the analytic/synthetic distinction as regards ordinary language, but for formal languages, this is not the case. It’s also not clear to me whether it’s impossible to construct a language (for communication) clear enough to make sense of analytic/synthetic distinctions.
This is one of those wonderfully agnostic positions that philosophy often leaves me with.
I probably should have voted for “Other,” but I voted for “Lean toward: yes” because I still outright agree in certain contexts.
Quine’s Two Dogmas is certainly enough to make me doubt the usefulness of the analytic/synthetic distinction as regards ordinary language, but for formal languages, this is not the case. It’s also not clear to me whether it’s impossible to construct a language (for communication) clear enough to make sense of analytic/synthetic distinctions.
This is one of those wonderfully agnostic positions that philosophy often leaves me with.