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The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction and the Social Sciences
Jan-Erik Lane
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2022.10.002
Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
The analytical-synthetic distinction keeps being of great interest. But why? Analytical sentences are camouflaged tautologies. They are not falsifiable, neither in this Kant’s world or in any of Leibniz’ possible worlds.
analytic propositions, Quine, stipulative definition, “democracy”, “polyarchy”
Jan-Erik Lane. (2022). The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction and the Social Sciences. Philosophy Study, October 2022, Vol. 12, No. 10, 540-543.