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Full Idea
Frege (according to Quine) characterises analytic truths as those that can be demonstrated or proved using only logical laws and definitions as premises.
Gist of Idea
Analytic truths are those that can be demonstrated using only logic and definitions
Source
report of Gottlob Frege (works [1890]) by Alexander Miller - Philosophy of Language 4.2
Book Ref
Miller,Alexander: 'Philosophy of Language' [UCL Press 1998], p.116
A Reaction
This is the big shift away from the Kantian version (predicate contained in the subject) towards a modern version, perhaps fixed by a truth table giving true for all values.
| 11240 | The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis] |
| 12233 | The ground of a pure conceptual truth is only in other conceptual truths [Bolzano] |
| 20295 | All analytic truths can become logical truths, by substituting definitions or synonyms [Frege, by Rey] |
| 7316 | Analytic truths are those that can be demonstrated using only logic and definitions [Frege, by Miller,A] |
| 4576 | An analytic truth is one which becomes a logical truth when some synonyms have been replaced [Cooper,DE] |
| 10627 | Many conceptual truths ('yellow is extended') are not analytic, as derived from logic and definitions [Hale/Wright] |
| 13960 | In two-dimensional semantics we have two aspects to truth in virtue of meaning [Chalmers] |
| 11170 | Analytic truth may only be true in virtue of the meanings of certain terms [Fine,K] |
| 11172 | The meaning of 'bachelor' is irrelevant to the meaning of 'unmarried man' [Fine,K] |
| 7315 | 'Jones is a married bachelor' does not have the logical form of a contradiction [Miller,A] |
| 17721 | There are no truths in virtue of meaning, but there is knowability in virtue of understanding [Boghossian, by Jenkins] |
| 14998 | Conventions are contingent and analytic truths are necessary, so that isn't their explanation [Sider] |