analytic judgment

is a statement whereby the meanings of the terms within it determine whether it's true or false.

i'll come back to the difference between those two ways of understanding analyticity in a moment the terms analytic and synthetic were first introduced by immanuel kant kant says that an analytic judgment is one where are getting back to aquinas the predicate is contained in the subject the concept of the predicate that is is contained in the concept of the subject we can understand that that way but almost immediately people generalize that to thinking in broader terms it's a matter of having your truth value determined by the meanings of the terms so we can say that a judgment is analytic if and only if the meanings of the terms within it determine whether it's true or false

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analytic judgment