Sentence examples for analytic judgments from inspiring English sources

On the contrary, Kant explicitly states a universal, necessary, and sufficient semantic criterion for the truth of analytic judgments, namely that a judgment is analytically true if and only if its denial entails a contradiction, in a broad sense of "entailment" that includes intensional entailment and not merely classical deductive entailment (A151/B190 191).

Axioms and propositions are analytic judgments constructed deductively from concepts.

By virtue of the fact that analytic judgments are necessarily true, and given Kant's thesis that necessity entails apriority, it follows that all analytic judgments are a priori and that there is no such thing as an analytic a posteriori judgment.

The crucial point about a synthetic a priori judgment, however, is that, although it is certainly not (as a priori) derived from experience, it nonetheless extends our knowledge beyond merely analytic judgments.

Poincaré was widely cited and discussed in the heyday of the Logical Empiricists, though the meaning of his conventionalism is often distorted, for example, when Popper characterizes Poincaré's conventions as analytic judgments (Popper 2007: chap. VIII).

Nevertheless there are special criteria of truth for each of the basic classes of judgments: analytic judgments, synthetic a posteriori (or empirical) judgments, and synthetic a priori judgments (for more details about this threefold distinction and the special truth-criteria, see Section 2).

One American intelligence official said the view of Iran's weapons design program, "like every analytic judgment, is constantly checked and reassessed in light of new information, which comes in all the time".

He provided as an example of an analytic judgment, "All bodies are extended": in thinking of a body we can't help but also think of something extended in space; that would seem to be just part of what is meant by "body".

This reproduces our pre-analytic judgment about the example.

While an analytic reflective judgment only asserts logical relations between concepts, a synthetic reflective judgment involves the assertion of real relationships between concepts and objects.

Another position which Schleiermacher holds is that the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments is a merely "relative" one.