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	What Has Necessity To Do With Analyticity?
		The claim that analytic statements are necessary is as old as the concept of analyticity and seldom taken to be contentious.
		Of course all statements depend in their truth on the definitions of the words, but what is peculiar about the statement ‘All Bachelors are married’ is that it is made true solely by the fact that the words have the meaning they have.
		An analytic statement is one which is made true solely by the linkage of a certain word to its meaning.
	www.lrz-muenchen.de /~dvw/papers/1999_analyt.html (2251 words)

	On Quine's Arguments Concerning Analyticity
		Analytic truths of type (b), if they are to exist must be such that they can be turned into analytic truths of type (a) by making use of pairs of synonymous terms.
		The general idea is that the analyticity of a statement is seen as relative to the semantic rules of the language of which it is a part.
		Analytic statements could be specified as those that describe applications of the semantic rules (the truth tables) which come out true on every possible concatenation of semantic values possible for the propositional variables in the statement.
	www.sorites.org /Issue_15/baker.htm (5348 words)

	Willard Quine (1951)The Verification Theory and Reductionism
		Statements of the form Quality q is at point-instant.r; y; z; e were, according to his canons, to be apportioned truth values in such a way as to maximise and minimise certain over-all features, and with growth of experience the truth values were to be progressively revised in the same spirit.
		Having re-evaluated one statement we must re-evaluate some others, whether they be statements logically connected with the first or whether they be the statements of logical connections themselves.
		The latter statements may be thought of as relatively centrally located within the total network, meaning merely that little preferential connection with any particular sense data obtrudes itself.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /quine.htm (3018 words)

	typesofstatements
		Statement (proposition): the meaning intended by any sentence which can be said to be true or false.
		Analytic Statement: a statement the truth value of which is determined by the meanings of its terms;e.g., "All squares are four-sided." It is sometimes said (e.g.
		Tautology (tautologous statement) a statement which is necessarily true on the basis of its logical syntactical structure.
	www.loyno.edu /~folse/typesofstatements.html (1249 words)

	Two Dogmas of Empiricism
		Statements may be said simply to be cognitively synonymous when their biconditional (the result of joining them by 'if and only if') is analytic.
		It is often hinted that the difficulty in separating analytic statements from synthetic ones in ordinary language is due to the vagueness of ordinary language and that the distinction is clear when we have a precise artificial language with explicit "semantical rules." This, however, as I shall now attempt to show, is a confusion.
		Statements of the form 'Quality q is at point-instant x; y; z; t' were, according to his canons, to be apportioned truth values in such a way as to maximize and minimize certain over-all features, and with growth of experience the truth values were to be progressively revised in the same spirit.
	www.galilean-library.org /quine.html (7970 words)

	ETHICS, JUSTICE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
		First, there are analytic statements, which are necessarily true: they must always be true, never false, by virtue of the meaning of their terms or their derivation according to certain rules from other statements (that is, they are true as theorems within a deductive-analytic-system).
		The truth of an empirically true statement is not necessitated, as for an analytic statement, but established through observation or intuition; in principle it is potentially, empirically false (that is, there is no logical reason for it to not be false, no matter how apparently true).
		I agree with Hare (1952, 1965) on this.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/TJP.CHAP4.HTM (13383 words)

	Ayer - 4 and 5: Human Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		{ 4 } - Empirical (a posteriori) statement
		Statement that is true by definition <=> Analytic statement
		Statement that isn't true by definition <=> Synthetic statement
	www.jcu.edu /philosophy/Gensler/ap/ayer-30e.htm (127 words)

	Analytic Philosophy
		Having re-evaluated one statement we must re-evaluate some others, which may be statements logically connected with the first or may be the statements of logical connections themselves.
		It is also a mistake, says Quine, to judge statements on their empirical content (that is, how well they are supported by evidence) because no statements are held solely with reference to experience.
		Since such a statement cannot be verified, it would have to be ruled meaningless according to the principle of verification.
	www.galilean-library.org /int17.html (8246 words)

	Is Atheism based on Faith?
		Analytic statements are those which can be said to be true or false by reason alone.
		For example: "A triangle has four sides", is an analytical statement, and it is false because it is against the definition of a triangle.
		Synthetic statements cannot be answered by reason alone, in addition one needs evidence given by the senses.
	www.positiveatheism.org /faq/faith.htm (1117 words)

	Sorites-Meaning Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We could define analytic truth in a language as the class of all analytic statements (pure and impure) of that language and, given certain logic, we could define logical truth in a language as the class of all analytic statements of that language that are not pure analytic statements.
		If analyticity were defined as the property of being a trivial case of analyticity, and that definition were itself a trivial case of analyticity, then the definition of analyticity would really be analytic in the sense defined by such definition.
		But, the analyticity that is required for the definition of analyticity itself cannot merely be a trivial one if to be analytic in some defined sense, i.e, to be analytic1, is a theoretical property depending on our assumptions and theories.
	sowi.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at /Sorites/Meaning.html (14406 words)

	Searle -- Proper Names
		A statement is analytic if and only if it is true in virtue of linguistic rules alone, without any recourse to empirical investigation.
		The sense in which the statement is informative is the sense in which any analytic statement is informative; it illustrates or exemplifies certain contingent facts about words, though it does not of course describe these facts.
		Precisely which statements are asserted to be false is not yet clear, for what precise conditions constitute the criteria for applying 'Aristotle' is not yet laid down by the language.
	mind.ucsd.edu /syllabi/00-01/phil_lang/readings/searle-01.html (3049 words)

	Dorit2
		Kant characterizes an analytic truth as one in which no more is attributed to the subject of the statement that is already contained in the subject.
		Another fact cited in defense of the distinction is this: If someone denies one of these statements that are supposed to be analytic we usually take it to show that she doesn't understand it and is attaching a different meaning to the sentence.
		Putnam takes Quine to be arguing that there are no analytic truths, and thinks he went too far, because there are obviously analytic statements (`Bachelors are unmarried men' would be a prime example), and that they are clearly different from synthetic statements.
	www.unc.edu /~ujanel/Dorit2.htm (2729 words)

	He Lives
		Hence, some argue that this statement was not a dogmatic definition.
		Paul’s statements in Romans chapters 3 and 5 (no one is righteous; no one seeks God; no one does good; all have sinned) should not be taken in a crassly literal and universal sense--if they are, irreconcilable contradictions will arise.
		As far as explicit statements are concerned, the Bible is silent on most of the issue, yet all the biblical evidence supports the Catholic teaching.
	www.helives.blogspot.com (14468 words)

	266ch5
		Testable statements: a statement that can be assessed by manipulating an IV and measuring the results on the DV.
		Since analytic statements are always true and contradictory statements are always false, we do not need to conduct experiments to test them.
		In contrast, analytic statements are always true ("I'm in Missouri or not in Missouri") and contradictory statements are always false ("I am a PSYC major and I am not a PSYC major").
	www2.truman.edu /shaffer/266ch5_2001.htm (1044 words)

	Two Dogmas of Empiricism
		The notion of analyticity about which we are worrying is a purported relation between statements and languages: a statement S is said to be
		For that matter, we could define analyticity more simply in terms of just synonymy of statements together with logical truth; it is not necessary to appeal to synonymy of linguistic forms other than statements.
		The statement, rather than the term, came with Russell to be recognized as the unit accountable to an empiricist critique.
	my.dreamwiz.com /reality/data/philosophy_information2_quine.htm (8510 words)

	Suvin (background) - On Cognitive Emotions and Topological Imagination
		Hegel's strategy was to incorporate the already acute Romantic refusals of calculating bourgeois rationality by refunctioning a Kantian distinction and opposing a necessarily negative Verstand (literally "understanding," to be understood as analytical intellect) to an axiologically positive Vernunft (literally "reason," to be understood as sublating wisdom?).
		If metaphor is this dialectical corrective of all analytical language centered on concepts, as all language it also refers, among other things, to what a given culture and ideology consider as reality.
		This imaginative cognition is not to be reduced to mystical insight or magical transfer but rather thought of as an analog (rather than digital) hypothetic proposition with specifiable yields and limitations; parallel to other forms of cognition, metaphoric analogies can be partly or wholly accepted or rejected by feedback from historical experience, verbal and extra-verbal.
	www.focusing.org /apm_papers/suvin.html (11727 words)

	PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
		{ 5 } - if it is an analytic statement, it is nothing more than a miserable tautology.
		Existence is not the subject of this sentence; it is a logical or grammatical predicate, but Kant does not think it is a "real" predicate because it gives no idea about the subject.
		In a tautology, the predicate says the same thing as the subject, and for Kant if "this thing exists" is an analytic statement, it is equivalent to "the existing thing exists."
	academic.uofs.edu /faculty/PM363/apology/god---0l.htm (587 words)

	Quine: “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kant conceived of an analytic statement as one that attributes to its subject no more than is already conceptually contained in the subject.
		Question: What is the nature of the relationship between a statement and the experiences which contribute to or detract from its confirmation?
		The statement, rather than the term, came with Russell to be recognized as the unit accountable to an empiricist critique.
	spruce.flint.umich.edu /~simoncu/380/quine.htm (433 words)

	Psychology 101
		Which of the following statements must be both verifiable and
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		?proven false?, he means that the probability that the statement
	www.msu.edu /user/kerr/p450/p307ex1.htm (1125 words)

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