ABSTRACT
If you open a book about language or about our knowledge of the world written by an analytic philosopher, it is quite probable that you will find repeated invoking of the concept of structure. The concept is essential not only for such classical works as Camap's Logical Structure of the World (1928) or Russell's Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), but also for writings of many contemporary (post)analytic philosophers, like Quine (see especially his 'Structure and Nature', 1992b). If the term 'structuralism' were up for grabs, it would be, I think, not too far-fetched to speak about a 'structuralism of (a part of) analytic philosophy'. No wonder: the concept of structure is of course intimately related to that of analysis - we reveal structures by analyzing wholes into parts.
