Analytical judgment a priori
Analytical judgment a priori is a term from the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant . He thereby designates a special class of judgments that can be made a priori , that is, without knowledge of facts from experience . The basis for this are the conceptual relationships between subject and predicate clarified through analysis in a simple categorical judgment . According to Kant, all analytical judgments are also analytical judgments a priori .
Determination in Kant
According to Kant , the grammatical concept of the subject and the concept of predicate are in a special relationship in the analytical judgment : the concept of predicate must already be contained as a feature in the concept of the stated subject. The characteristics of the subject concept are properties of the objects that fall under it.
The analytical judgment a priori is also called a logical proposition ; This type of judgment includes, for example, the tautologies of logic or statements that attribute features to a concept that define it.
Since analytical judgments a priori do not contain any new information in relation to the subject that would expand knowledge, they are also called explanatory judgments ; these stand in contrast to synthetic a priori judgments and synthetic a posteriori judgments , which are also called extension judgments . In analytical judgments a priori , the predicate explains the grammatical subject.