Willard Van Orman Quine

question 215

Multiple Choice

Willard Van Orman Quine
-Extensional agreement between two predicates (that is,they are true of the same objects)

• A)insures that they have the same truth value.
• B)would be sufficient to insure analyticity.
• C)is equivalent to cognitive synonymy.
• D)tells us nothing about the truth or meaning of either predicate.

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