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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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analogical reasoning
Philosophy; General philosophy
Reasoning that attempts to justify the conclusion that situation X has quality Y, by appeal to a sufficiently similar (analogous) situation X', which is said to have Y or some ...
analysis
Philosophy; General philosophy
The central method of analytical philosophy, shaped by the development of modern logic and found in the work of Frege, Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein, according to which ...
analysis and synthesis
Philosophy; General philosophy
Analysis and Synthesis are philosophical terms denoting the processes of mentally breaking down of a whole into its constituent parts (analysis), and reconstituting a whole from ...
analytic and synthetic
Philosophy; General philosophy
Distinction between judgments or propositions. A judgment is analytic if the concept of its predicate is already contained in that of its subject; if the concepts of its subject ...
analytic statement
Philosophy; General philosophy
A statement is analytic if its truth or falsity depends only on the meanings of the words from which it is composed. For example, "all bachelors are unmarried men" is an analytic ...
analytical mind
Philosophy; General philosophy
That part of the mind which one consciously uses and is aware of. It is the portion of the mind which thinks, observes data, remembers it and resolves problems.
analytic-synthetic distinction
Philosophy; General philosophy
According to Kant's formulation of the distinction, in an analytic proposition the concept of the predicate is contained in the concept of the subject, and we can tell that the ...
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