Mr Nemo
1 min readMay 3, 2022

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Many thanks for these questions.

The short answer is that Quine’s devastating attack on the A-S distinction applies to the Logical Empiricists’ conception of that distinction, but not to Kant’s own conception of it, which is not only widely misunderstood — not least because of Quine’s caricature of it — but also philosophically defensible in a contemporary context.

The long answer is provided in this detailed exposition & defense of Kant’s own theory, in chapters 3–5 of this book, Kant and the Foundations of Analytic philosophy —

& also in this detailed exposition & defense of my own broadly & radically Kantian version of the A-S distinction, with a point-by-point critical reply to Quine, in chapter 4 of this book, Cognition, Content, and the A Priori —

https://www.academia.edu/35801833/The_Rational_Human_Condition_5_Cognition_Content_and_the_A_Priori_A_Study_in_the_Philosophy_of_Mind_and_Knowledge_OUP_2015_

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Mr Nemo
Mr Nemo

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Formerly Captain Nemo. A not-so-very-angry, but still unemployed, full-time philosopher-nobody.

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