More on Two Dogmas

Sad, I know, but I have been reading Quine's paper http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html again. There is so much in it to think about. I am not convinced by the argument that the analytic/synthetic distinction is false in all cases. OK, so Quine quotes the difficult cases and asks for a definition of analytic that will always work. I think he is exploiting a false dichotomy. That all bachelors are unmarried men is certainly analytic, in that it is true by definition in our world, which, given we are in our world, is the only one that matters. Of course there is an element of choosing our axioms here, but, as this excellent paper points out, http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Philosophy/axioms/axioms/axioms.html , there always is.