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TY - GEN ID - cogprints3254 UR - http://cogprints.org/3254/ A1 - Horsey, Richard TI - Psychosemantic analyticity Y1 - 2001/09// N2 - It is widely agreed that the content of a logical concept such as and is constituted by the inferences it enters into. I argue that it is impossible to draw a principled distinction between logical and non-logical concepts, and hence that the content of non-logical concepts can also be constituted by certain of their inferential relations. The traditional problem with such a view has been that, given Quine?s arguments against the analytic-synthetic distinction, there does not seem to be any way to distinguish between those inferences that are content constitutive and those that are not. I propose that such a distinction can be drawn by appealing to a notion of ?psychosemantic analyticity?. This approach is immune to Quine?s arguments, since ?psychosemantic analyticity? is a psychological property, and it is thus an empirical question which inferences have this property. AV - public KW - logical vocabulary analyticity ER -