C. I. Lewis and the analyticity debate
pp. 201-227
in: Erich Reck (ed), The historical turn in analytic philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2013Abstract
Carnap, Lewis and others take a pragmatic stand on the question of choosing between language forms, scientific frameworks; but their pragmatism leaves off at the imagined boundary between the analytic and the synthetic. In repudiating such a boundary I espouse a more thorough pragmatism. Each man is given a scientific heritage plus a continuing barrage of sensory stimulation; and the considerations which guide him in warping his scientific heritage to fit his continuing sensory promptings are, where rational, pragmatic. (Quine, 1953, p. 46)
