analytic statement

is problematic because an analytic statement’ is supposed to be ‘empirically isolated’, however sentences like “all bachelors are unmarried” must start from a conception of what's empirical what is about the world in some sense.

well suppose we thought of an analytic statement as being defined that way not having its truth value determined by the meanings of its terms but instead as something that conveys no information about the world that you might say no empirical evidence could be relevant to it could not be confirmed or disconfirmed by anything about the world so you might say it's isolated from anything empirical so let's call an analytic statement understood in that sense empirically isolated if we understood things that way then we could say a synthetic statement is one that's not empirically isolated in other words it does give us information about the world so we could say look a synthetic statement if i learn that i learn something about the world but if i learn an analytic statement i learn nothing about the world all i'm learning is at best something about language if i think of things that way then i really start from a conception of what's empirical what is about the world in some sense what evidence could confirm or disconfirm and those are not exactly the same thing if i'm thinking about what conveys information about the world well is that the same thing as what could be confirmed or disconfirmed maybe but maybe there's things about the world that i couldn't confirm i couldn't disconfirm they are let's say facts about things outside my light cone i couldn't possibly get any information about them there could also be the classic empiricist cases of meaningless propositions that i ought to commit to the flames to use hume's phrase

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analytic statement