Pudicus's definitions
Adj.
(said of judgments)
Something that is so because it has to be so, as opposed to something that merely happens to be so.
That I was born on my birthday is analytic. That I was born on a Tuesday is synthetic. (After Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
(said of judgments)
Something that is so because it has to be so, as opposed to something that merely happens to be so.
That I was born on my birthday is analytic. That I was born on a Tuesday is synthetic. (After Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
The theory of the analytic-synthetic dichotomy presents men with the following choice: If your statement is proved, it says nothing about that which exists; if it is about existents, it cannot be proved.
by Pudicus August 30, 2019
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