[FOM] axioms and implicit definitions

[A. Mani]

On Thursday 23 Oct 2008 03:05:59 rgheck wrote:
>
> My sense is that Quine's various writings on conventionalism are often
> taken to be the locus classicus for that sort of criticism. For a more
> recent defense, there's a paper by Crispin Wright and Bob Hale,
> "Implicit Definition and the Apriori", that strives to resuscitate some

Another recent paper that tries to see the issue from a non-empiricist 
viewpoint is 
http://www.umass.edu/philosophy/events/papers/shapiro-self-evidence.pdf


Best

A. Mani


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