PHILOS 146 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Critique Of Pure Reason, Logical Truth
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Conceptual content: all and only what matters for the consequence of a statement. Two claims have the same content when they have all the same consequences in combination with the some other judgments. a. i. 1. In mathematics this concerns the proof of the proposition, following it back up to primitive truths d. i. If the truth rests on purely general logical laws and on definitions, then the proposition is analytic d. i. 1. Shows that some judgments thought possible on the basis of intuition are actually just analytic. If something follows from the definitions it is analytically true. d. i. 1. a. Definitions are stipulated, not judged, but immediately transformed into a judgment, viz. an analytic one d. i. 1. b. Because of inferential significance content is not d. i. 2. added by definitions. The fact that a definition is proven in a certain way is part of its content. d. ii. d. iii. If truth appeals to special science then the proposition is synthetic.
