• The analyticsynthetic distinction is a semantic distinction used primarily in philosophy to distinguish between propositions (in particular, statements...
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  • is what Boghossian calls the "analytic explanation of the a priori." The distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions was first introduced...
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  • Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, drew a distinction between "analytic" and "synthetic" propositions. He contended that some propositions are...
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  • Social science Management Analytic-synthetic distinction Logic Critical thinking Lateral thinking Deductive reasoning Analytical skill Analysis Analysis...
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  • adequate explanation of synonyms. Analyticsynthetic distinction Duhem–Quine thesis Internal-external distinction Meaning (linguistics) Meta-ontology...
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  • Logical positivism (category Analytic philosophy)
    as a critic of this movement... The analytic/synthetic distinction and the observational/theoretical distinction were tied together by the verifiability...
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  • materials Synthetic position, a concept in finance Synthetic-aperture radar, a type or radar Analyticsynthetic distinction, in philosophy Synthetic language...
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    Hume's fork (category Conceptual distinctions)
    Hume's fork asserts that all statements are exclusively either "analytic a priori" or "synthetic a posteriori," which, respectively, are universally true by...
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    Willard Van Orman Quine (category Analytic philosophers)
    Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951), which attacked the traditional analytic-synthetic distinction and reductionism, undermining the then-popular logical positivism...
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  • Antithesis between the Synthetic and the Analytic Method in Modern Geometry: The distinction between modern synthesis and modern analytic geometry must no longer...
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    categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction). Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square...
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  • Two Dogmas of Empiricism (category Analytic philosophy literature)
    positivists' philosophy: the first being the analyticsynthetic distinction between analytic truths and synthetic truths, explained by Quine as truths grounded...
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  • Philosophical analysis (category Analytic philosophy)
    current criticisms of the analytic method derive from W.V. Quine's famous rejection of the analyticsynthetic distinction. While Quine's critique is...
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  • "Knowledge how" Knowledge by acquaintance A priori and a posteriori Analyticsynthetic distinction Gettier problem Justification Regress argument Theories of justification...
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  • this work is not directed at the internal-external distinction but at the analyticsynthetic distinction brought up by Carnap in his work on logic: Meaning...
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  • Verificationism (category Analytic philosophy)
    Tractatus, and, led by Bertrand Russell, sought to reformulate the analyticsynthetic distinction in a way that would reduce mathematics and logic to semantical...
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  • obtaining knowledge – has a philosophical history dating from antiquity. The analytical nature of much of philosophical enquiry, the awareness of apparently a...
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    many self-contradictions implicit in the whole.: 403  Strawson views the analytic argument of the transcendental deduction as the most valuable idea in the...
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    priori (it is analytically true that no analytic proposition could be a posteriori). By contrast, a synthetic proposition is one the content of which...
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    the analytic tradition. The paper is an attack on two central tenets of the logical positivists' philosophy. One is the distinction between analytic statements...
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  • Kant who introduced the terminology. The distinction concerns the relation of a subject to its predicate: analytic claims are those in which the subject...
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    a fallacy. The is–ought problem is closely related to the fact–value distinction in epistemology. Though the terms are often used interchangeably, academic...
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    Willard V. O. Quine to attack, among other things, the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements. British philosopher Susan Haack, following...
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  • Hegelianism. The distinction has also been drawn as analytic is academic or technical philosophy, while continental is literary philosophy. Analytic philosophy...
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  • Analytic apriori may refer to: A priori and a posteriori Analyticsynthetic distinction Analytic truth This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • are not without falling into the extraordinarily problematic analytic/synthetic distinction. Fodor and Lepore (1992) present several arguments to demonstrate...
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  • The fact–value distinction is a fundamental epistemological distinction described between: Statements of fact (positive or descriptive statements), based...
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  • as analytic, but it used to be fusional. Certain synthetic qualities (as in the inflection of verbs to show tense) were retained. The distinction is,...
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    Kant further elaborates on the distinction between "analytic" and "synthetic" judgments. A proposition is analytic if the content of the predicate-concept...
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  • purely analytic truths, i.e. that all propositions are to some extent empirical. But others have explicitly defended the analytic-synthetic distinction against...
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