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Analytic-synthetic distinction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The analytic-synthetic distinction is a conceptual distinction, used primarily in philosophy to distinguish propositions into two types: analytic propositions and synthetic propositions . Analy...
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A priori and a posteriori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The terms " a priori " and " a posteriori " are used in philosophy (epistemology) to distinguish two types of knowledge, justifications or arguments. A priori knowledge or justification ...
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Introduction Immanuel Kant - Kant's Error: From Space & Time to Space and (Wave) Motion - Summary Kant Metaphysics - Kant a priori / a posteriori - Kant Analytic / Synthetic - Kant Synthetic a priori Principles of Science - Space is a priori - Kant's Error: Time is a priori - Kant's Error: No Absolute Space - Solution...
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Prior to the Critique it was generally accepted that a priori was coincident with analytic, and a posteriori (Kant's "empirical") was coincident with synthetic.
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A survey of the literature on the problem of the synthetic a priori soon reveals that the term "analytic" is used in a narrower and a broader sense. In the narrower sense, a proposition is analytic if it is either a truth of logic or is logically true.
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relations of ideas/ relations of words ... not dependent on relations between ideas or words (about the world, not about our ideas?) ... got without resort to sense experience...
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Analytic statements (if true) are necessarily true, so they must be known a priori. The disagreement between Kant and Hume concerns whether or not we have a priori knowledge of any synthetic statements. Hume did not see how this could be possible. Kant’s goal is to explain how it could be possible.
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