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IV. Of the Difference between Analytic and Synthetic Judgments

1. When we make a judgment, what are the two ways in which the subject of the judgment (statement) related to the predicate of the judgment (statement)?

2. Define analytic judgments.

3. Define synthetic judgments.

4. Why can the analytic judgments be called explicative (serve as explanations)?

5. Why can the synthetic judgments be called augmentative (i.e. add something external to the statement)?

6. Why is "all bodies are extended" an analytic judgment?

7. Why is "all bodies are heavy" a synthetic judgment?

8. What do you think Kant meant by "it would be absurd to think of grounding an analytic judgment on experience"?

9. Can you imagine a body that is not extended? If not, then what relation is there between "bodies" (subject) and "extended" (predicate): necessary or contingent?

10. Is it logically possible for you to imagine a body that does not have weight?

11. How you ever seen (experienced) a body without weight?

12. Kant gives you this example: "Everything that happens has a cause." What do you think this example shows?

13. Why does Kant say "everything that happens has a cause" is synthetic? And, a priori?

In All Theoretical Sciences of Reason, Synthetic Judgments "A Priori" Are Contained as Principles?

14. Why does Kant say that "proper mathematical propositions are always judgments a priori"?

15. Why is the proposition, "7 + 5 = 12," not analytic?

16. What are some analytic geometric propositions?

17. Why is "In all changes of the material world, the quantity of matter remains unchanged" a synthetic judgment a priori?