Full Idea
Is the proposition "This or that thing exists" an analytic or a synthetic proposition?
Gist of Idea
Is "This thing exists" analytic or synthetic?
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B625/A597)
Book Reference
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.566
A Reaction
Quine's challenge to the analytic/synthetic distinction (e.g. Idea 1626) may spoil this question, but it seems fine ask whether we are talking about words or facts here. Once this question is asked, the Ontological Argument is in trouble.
Related Idea
Idea 1626 It is troublesome nonsense to split statements into a linguistic and a factual component [Quine]