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1. Write a few examples of Verbal or Analytic propositions.
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As an example of an analytic judgment, Kant gave "All bodies are extended." He seems to mean that we cannot think of a body without also thinking of an extension in space. He contrasts this example with “All bodies are heavy,” where the predicate ("is heavy"), he says, “is something entirely different from that which I think in the mere concept of body in general.” (A:7)
Expanding on that, Kant made a fourfold distinction—analytic vs. synthetic propositions or statements, and a priori vs. a posterioriones. Analytic statements are those in which, Kant claimed, the predicate is contained in the subject, whereas in synthetic ones it is not. An example frequently given for an analytic statement is "All bachelors are unmarried males." If the definition of 'bachelor' is known, then the predicate 'is an unmarried male' follows from that definition. A priori statements are ones whose truth can be known before any experience with the world, whereas the truth of a posteriori ones is discovered through experience of the world.
These two distinctions made for four possibilities—Analytic a priori, analytic a posteriori, synthetic a priori, and synthetic a posteriori.
Two of those were, until recently, accepted by more-or-less everyone as noncontroversial—analytic a priori and synthetic a posteriori. Everyone agreed that there are no analytic a posteriori statements because analytic implies a priori, i.e. analytic implies that the truth of the statement is not derived from experience of the world.
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