Passage by Quine discussed by Grice:
Quine:
"There is also a second class of analytic statements."
"There is also a second class of analytic statements."
"This class is typified by utterances such as:
"No bachelor is married".
The characteristic of
such a statement is that it can be turned into a logical truth by putting
synonyms for synonyms.
Thus,
"No bachelor is married"
can be turned into
[a more primitive class of analytic statements, viz: "No unmarried man is married"] by putting 'unmarried
man' for its alleged synonym 'bachelor.'
"We still lack a proper characterization of this
second class of analytic statements, and therewith of analyticity generally,
inasmuch as we have had in the above description to lean on a notion of
'synonymy' which is no less in need of clarification than analyticity itself."
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