Lutz, Sebastian (2014) 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, the conditions need not be supplemented. Specifically, the axiomatization and the observational vocabulary of a theory determine its synthetic component uniquely but leave some freedom in the choice of its analytic component. This throws a new light on the process of the rational reconstruction of theories and renders adequate a suggestion by Bedard for the interpretation of theoretical terms (when expressed within the confines of standard predicate logic). I suggest a possible analytic component for theories that is stronger than the Carnap sentence and thus closer to Bedard's suggestion.
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| 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 |
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| Depositing User: | Sebastian Lutz | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2014 20:04 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2014 20:04 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 11085 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Conventionalism General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Date: | 25 October 2014 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11085 |
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