ABSTRACT

Considering Carnap's explicative intentions, I think his rubric "Semantical Rule," or "Meaning Postulate," could just as well be replaced by the Peircean announcement: "The following rules (or postulates) specify implications that fix the meaning in the indicated respects of formulas containing the indicated symbols. "29 His approach to analyticity can therefore be supported, I believe, by the considerations I have assembled in this section.