ABSTRACT
In chapter 3 we presented an overview of what we take to be the main arguments given by Quine against the notion of analyticity, along with some responses. In the next two chapters, we investigate some connections between the issue of analyticity and broader questions of ontology and epistemology. Our investigation is not intended to be exhaustive, and the division between these issues is somewhat artifi cial, for in these discussions ontological and epistemological considerations rarely admit any neat partition. Nonetheless, certain disputes, such as those concerning the existence of mathematical objects and truths, of logical objects and laws, of universals, of propositions, meanings, and other ‘intensional’ entities, classically form a part of ontology, broadly conceived.
