Analyticity as Expressive of Monotonic Material Inference

<p>For the past sixty years analyticity has been both vigorously challenged and defended. In this paper I reconceptualize analyticity by appropriating Robert Brandom's logical expressivism. I argue that statements such as 'x is analytic' should be interpreted as bits of logical expressivist vocabulary explicating the implicit material proprieties of treating the inferences appropriately substitutable for 'x' as materially monotonic. This interpretation demands that only explicating inference expressions are appropriately considered analytic: a demand defended in this paper. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that this interpretation is free from the objections levied at analyticity by its objectors. Finally, this logical expressivist interpretation of analyticity is compared with the time-honored interpretations of analyticity as (i) `truth in virtue</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Peeler, Alfred Monroe

Contributors dc:contributor

• Konstantin Pollok
• Tom Burke

• Arts and Humanities
• Philosophy
• Analyticity
• Brandom
• Inferentialism
• Logical Expressivim
• Normative Pragmatism
• Semantics

Statement dc:rights

• © 2012, Alfred Monroe Peeler

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1724

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-2725