analyticities

This may be because no analyticities are obvious, or it may be because moral analyses in particular are especially complex.

Boys in White Suits 2009

Perhaps moral expressions are analytically equivalent to naturalistic expressions, but these analyticities are themselves not obvious even to competent speakers (Lewis 1989, 129).

Boys in White Suits 2009

One moral that could be drawn from the history of Twentieth Century analytic philosophy is that if there are any analyticities, competent speakers can question them.

Boys in White Suits 2009

This Quinean attack has consequences for the traditional philosophical business of conceptual analysis, since on the dominant view from Plato through Carnap “every analysis of a concept is inextrictably bound to a collection of purported analyticities” (Laurence & Margolis 1999, p. 18).

Naturalism in Legal Philosophy Leiter, Brian 2007

Nor should one discount the fact that Carnap's logic of science emerges as wilfully ill-equipped to deal with the problems that exercise the traditional metaphysics or epistemology that deal in analyticities.

Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

Carnapian analyticities do not therefore express propositions that we hold to be true unconditionally, nor true merely relative to their own framework.

Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

As we saw, Fodor (1983, 2000) argues on behalf of Quine's claim about the confirmation holism of belief fixation generally, and, more specifically, Fodor et al. (1975) raised doubts about whether any kind of “semantic decomposition” is psychologically real, and Fodor (1970, 1998) has contested some of the most prized examples of analyticities, such as (10) in set II above, linking killing to death (but see Pietroski 2002 for a reply).

The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008