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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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An excerpt from Bergmann's 1967 Logic and Reality, with original pagination. ... That is, only synthetic true sentences represent facts. Many philosophers have tried to establish a dichotomy among facts. The traditional labels are synthetic a priori and synthetic a posteriori.
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But do synthetic a priori judgments exist, and when (if at all) are we actually justified in calling them "knowledge"? Indeed, they do exist; it's not unreasonable to say that all the really "interesting" judgments are exactly of this kind.
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Finally, metaphysical knowledge, -if we have any-, would be synthetic a priori knowledge—non-trivial knowledge about reality that can be justified without appeal to sense experience. So, if Kant can show how synthetic a priori knowledge is possible, he will have shown how metaphysical knowledge is possible. But...
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"Quine's Ladder: Two and a Half Pages from the Philosophy of Logic". In Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008), pp. 274-312. ... "Two Conceptions of the Synthetic A Priori", in Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (The Library of Living Philosophers; Open Court 1997).
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Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University. ... I maintain the website LAOS: Logicians at Ohio State. If you are a member and would like to have your information updated on this website, please send me an email.
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In the 3. of his Logische Untersuchungen Husserl declares those pure laws as being synthetic a priori, in which the occuring non-formal terms are not formalizable salva veritate (Husserl, XIX/1, 260). Unfortunately, and despite my sympathy for Husserl's ontological view, such a claim does not tell us what kind of...
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