Herman Cappelen
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first heard Jan 2013
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You just don't find people doing that.
That's an empirical claim.
There's, of course...
Additional issues here that I don't go into fully in this book, and this is a way in which my book differs from Timothy Williamson's.
So Williamson's book is a full-out attack on the idea that there is such a thing as conceptual analysis.
Williamson argues, and I think these arguments are incredibly strong, that there is no such thing.
And of course, if there's no such thing, then we don't do it.
So you'd have to reply to those arguments.
If you even thought that anyone did it, you'd have to respond to the Williamson type arguments.
But I only point this out in the book and I don't think that I can add anything really to what Williamson has to say.
I mean, one thing I think is very helpful to think about here is that maybe the best work done on the notion of analyticity and
conceptual truth and so on.
In contemporary philosophies, Paul Boghossian makes very modest claims.
It's very interesting to look at the debate between him and Williamson because Boghossian started out trying to show that there were certain kinds of judgments that you could make if you were a competent user of the word if.
that relied only on your conceptual competence.
He then retreated after criticism from Williamson to and that there were certain judgments.
But so it's like trying, you know, if he succeeds, he will have shown that and is a word such that when you're competent with it, there are certain judgments you're justified in.
based solely on their conceptual competence.
But that's a very modest claim.
I mean, and this is from the leading proponent of this idea, one little word, and it's very hard to see how that expands throughout the rest of philosophy.
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