analytic
- adjective
- /əˈnælɪtɪk/
- Specialized
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analítico
- A statement like "All bachelors are unmarried" is considered analytic because it is true by definition.
- logically analytic
He says that you know there are some things that are analytic and depend on the principle of contradiction.
- He says that you know there are some things that are analytic and depend on the principle of contradiction.
- The you know, the the difference between the synthetic and the analytic and a priori and a posteriori.
Examples
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The only other sort of truth was that of analytic propositions, and these, though a priori, conveyed no genuine factual information.
Academic text (1998) -
On the other hand, there seems to be the idea that grounding is a very exclusive notion: only distinguished collections of truths—those that do, for instance, not contain logically analytic truths—form the complete grounds of other truths.
Academic text (2016) -
And we're asking about not analytic but synthetic propositions.
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So generally speaking, they don't have the same kind of force as analytic propositions.
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He says that you know there are some things that are analytic and depend on the principle of contradiction.
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Both MIXED and LOGISTIC procedures in SAS implement the appropriate sampling weights by normalizing the weight to the size of the analytic sample.
Academic text (2016) -
Patterson closes with a discussion of Quine's famous critique of the analytic-synthetic distinction, which rendered problematic arguments about necessity grounded in analytic statements.
Blog text (10) -
The idea that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees is an analytic truth in geometry.
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Philosophers often debate whether mathematical truths are analytic or depend on empirical experience.
Synonyms
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6.7
True only because of the meaning of its words, not because of facts
Clearly true and impossible to doubt
Certainly true and impossible to doubt
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.4
A part of math that uses algebra and coordinates to study shapes
A way of looking at a problem by breaking it into smaller parts to see how they work together
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Analytic comes from Greek parts ana- 'up' and lyein 'to loosen', sharing the root with analysis and analyze, which mean 'to break into parts'. An analytic statement is true by the words themselves, because when you look at the parts you can see the truth without other facts.