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2 Try to tackle objection 7.
3 Have you any further criticism to make of the Verification Theory?
4 Discuss Quine's attack on analyticity, or his defense of meaning
indeterminacy. (Some outside reading would be required for either of
these.)
Further reading
· Ayer (1946) is a classic and/but very accessible exposition and defense
of verificationism.
· Some influential anti-verificationist papers besides Quine's were
Waismann (1965b) and various collected essays by Hilary Putnam
(1975b), especially "Dreaming and `Depth Grammar'."
· Quine's doctrine of the indeterminacy of translation spawned a vast
and toxic literature. For one view of the doctrine and the early litera-
ture, see Lycan (1984: ch. 9) (you were expecting me to recommend
someone else's view?); also, see Bar-On (1992).
· The 1970s and 1980s saw an outbreak of neoverificationism, due largely