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She showed it to be a non-starter for Aristotelians, along with the analytic-synthetic dichotomy, necessary/contingent confusion, etc.
Inspiration from Ayn Rand, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2010
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“It is found that verbal communication and especially analytic-synthetic writing activities play an important role in information literacy at the level of everyday language use.”
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Consequently, where Quine rejected the classical Kantian analytic-synthetic dichotomy out of hand, Sellars argued that there were two quite different distinctions tangled up in the single dichotomy that Carnap had inherited from the Kantian tradition: the distinction between logical and empirical (matter-of-factual) claims
Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009
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This plain historical fact is closely related to the highly regrettable further fact that Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction is nowadays often wrongly interpreted
Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009
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“It is found that verbal communication and especially analytic-synthetic writing activities play an important role in information literacy at the level of everyday language use.”
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“It is found that verbal communication and especially analytic-synthetic writing activities play an important role in information literacy at the level of everyday language use.”
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“It is found that verbal communication and especially analytic-synthetic writing activities play an important role in information literacy at the level of everyday language use.”
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“It is found that verbal communication and especially analytic-synthetic writing activities play an important role in information literacy at the level of everyday language use.”
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“It is found that verbal communication and especially analytic-synthetic writing activities play an important role in information literacy at the level of everyday language use.”
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“It is found that verbal communication and especially analytic-synthetic writing activities play an important role in information literacy at the level of everyday language use.”
oroboros commented on the word analytic-synthetic
Specifically, the analytic-synthetic dichotomy. An analytic proposition: "All Golden Retrievers are dogs." A synthetic proposition: "All dogs love to chase squirrels." The first is tautologous, true by definition; the second is true by observation--thru experience.
January 25, 2007