Quine and analytic statement
 

Anyone here familiar with Quine's notion that analytic statements are circular? I'm having a difficult time understanding this point.

Re: Quine and analytic statement
 

Do you mean his argument that the definitions for analytic statements by past philosophers are circular? He presented this argument in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", and it was his reason for denying a distinction between analytic and synthetic statements. Or do you mean that analytic statements are themselves circular? Or something else entirely?

Re: Quine and analytic statement
 

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Anyone here familiar with Quine's notion that analytic statements are circular? I'm having a difficult time understanding this point.

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Don't you think Quine's argument is a little too complicated for discussion here?

Re: Quine and analytic statement
 

hi, all formal reasoning is analytic. perhaps you are stumped on the word "analytic". it just means that the means to the conclusion is contained in the premises---plus the procedure=the logical system. this would not be a subject for debate among traditional philosophers. now existentialists, another story.