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In Defense of the Analytic-Snythetic Distinction, A Rebuttal of Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism
There has been a long philosophical dispute concerning the relation between analytic and synthetic truths. The distinction of these terms goes as far back to at least Leibniz. Leibniz distinguished conceptual truths from factual truths with the distinction between truths of reason, and truths of fact. Simply speaking, truths of reason are those truths that are necessary and its opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent, and their opposite is possible.
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