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Quine's criterion for criticizing analyticity relies on the untenability of the notion of synonymy.
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Is it true that Quine's criterion for criticizing analyticity relies on the untenability of the notion of synonymy?
Yes. Quine's critique of the analytic-synthetic distinction heavily relies on the untenability of defining analyticity through synonymy, which he argues is circular.
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Wikipedia: Verificationism. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verificationism
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Mentions Quine's skepticism about meaning and his view that attempts to define synonymy or analyticity fail.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Willard Van Orman Quine. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/
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