PHI 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Modus Ponens, Logical Form, Tim Hortons

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: All

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For each of the following sentences, determine whether it is best interpreted as analytic, synthetic, or contradictory. 1. she worked on her paper for less than an hour because she worked on it for 45 minutes. This is an analytic statement. (1 mark) analytic statements are true by definition. (1 mark) because 45 minutes is less than an hour, which, by definition, has sixty minutes, the statement is true by definition. (1 mark) 2. the unit of measurement known as the foot contains twelve inches. Because a foot, by definition, contains twelve inches, this statement is analytic. This statement is synthetic. (1 mark) the truth or falsity of synthetic statements does not depend merely on the meaning of the terms. (or students may say that synthetic statements are neither true nor false by defintion. )(1 mark) the truth of this statement is not a function of the meaning of the terms thrasymachus , big and left foot . (1 mark)