According to stereotype, analytic philosophers love nothing more than analyzing concepts, filling the ellipsis in
x is F if and only if …
with conditions held to be implicit in the meaning of a word.
It’s an anachronistic vision, both because “analytic truth” plays a minimal role in contemporary philosophy—there’s more interest in “real definition,” the m…
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