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Single Idea 14099
[filed under theme 19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
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Full Idea
It sounds right to say that Fred's being a bachelor consists in (reduces to) being an unmarried male, but slightly off to say that Fred's being an unmarried male consists in (or reduces to) being a bachelor. There is a corresponding explanatory asymmetry.
Gist of Idea
'Bachelor' consists in or reduces to 'unmarried' male, but not the other way around
Source
Gideon Rosen (Metaphysical Dependence [2010], 10)
Book Ref
'Modality', ed/tr. Hale,B/Hoffman,A [OUP 2010], p.124
A Reaction
This emerging understanding of the asymmetry of the idea shows that we are not just dealing with a simple semantic identity. Our concepts are richer than our language. He adds that a ball could be blue in virtue of being cerulean.
The
20 ideas
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[propositions that just seem to be about words]:
8734
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Non-subject/predicate tautologies won't fit Kant's definition of analyticity
[Shapiro on Kant]
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7314
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How can bachelor 'contain' unmarried man? Are all analytic truths in subject-predicate form?
[Miller,A on Kant]
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20291
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If the predicate is contained in the subject of a judgement, it is analytic; otherwise synthetic
[Kant]
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20292
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Analytic judgements clarify, by analysing the subject into its component predicates
[Kant]
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16926
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Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject
[Kant]
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16927
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Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject
[Kant]
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9370
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A statement is analytic if substitution of synonyms can make it a logical truth
[Frege, by Boghossian]
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8743
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Frege considered analyticity to be an epistemic concept
[Frege, by Shapiro]
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7725
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'P or not-p' seems to be analytic, but does not fit Kant's account, lacking clear subject or predicate
[Frege, by Weiner]
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13345
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Sentences are 'analytical' if every sequence of objects models them
[Tarski]
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9371
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Analytic statements are either logical truths (all reinterpretations) or they depend on synonymy
[Quine]
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20294
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'Married' does not 'contain' its symmetry, nor 'bigger than' its transitivity
[Rey]
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20293
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Analytic judgements can't be explained by contradiction, since that is what is assumed
[Rey]
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20297
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Analytic statements are undeniable (because of meaning), rather than unrevisable
[Rey]
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20301
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The meaning properties of a term are those which explain how the term is typically used
[Rey]
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20302
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An intrinsic language faculty may fix what is meaningful (as well as grammatical)
[Rey]
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20303
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Research throws doubts on the claimed intuitions which support analyticity
[Rey]
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14099
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'Bachelor' consists in or reduces to 'unmarried' male, but not the other way around
[Rosen]
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14488
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Analyticity is revealed through redundancy, as in 'He bought a house and a building'
[Thomasson]
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17725
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'Analytic' can be conceptual, or by meaning, or predicate inclusion, or definition...
[Jenkins]
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