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Choosing the Analytic Component of Theories

Lutz, Sebastian (2013) Choosing the Analytic Component of Theories. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    I provide a compact reformulation of Carnap’s conditions of adequacy for the analytic and the synthetic component of a theory and show that, contrary to arguments by Winnie and Demopoulos, Carnap’s conditions of adequacy need not be supplemented by another condition. This has immediate implications for the analytic component of reduction sentences.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Keywords: analyticity; analytic-synthetic distinction; Carnap sentence; Ramsey sentence; reduction sentence; Przełęcki reduction pair; relativization sentence
    Subjects: General Issues > Conventionalism
    General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism
    General Issues > Structure of Theories
    Depositing User: Sebastian Lutz
    Date Deposited: 20 May 2013 16:02
    Last Modified: 20 May 2013 16:02
    Item ID: 9773
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9773

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