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Research paper thumbnail of Hobbes's logic: language and scientific method

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01445348608837095, Nov 2, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The analytic-synthetic distinction and the classical model of science: Kant, Bolzano and Frege

Synthese, 2010

This paper concentrates on some aspects of the history of the analyticsynthetic distinction from ... more This paper concentrates on some aspects of the history of the analyticsynthetic distinction from Kant to Bolzano and Frege. This history evinces considerable continuity but also some important discontinuities. The analytic-synthetic distinction has to be seen in the first place in relation to a science, i.e. an ordered system of cognition. Looking especially to the place and role of logic it will be argued that Kant, Bolzano and Frege each developed the analytic-synthetic distinction within the same conception of scientific rationality, that is, within the Classical Model of Science: scientific knowledge as cognitio ex principiis. But as we will see, the way the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments or propositions functions within this model turns out to differ considerably between them.

Research paper thumbnail of Kant's theory of geometrical reasoning and the analytic-synthetic distinction. On Hintikka's interpretation of Kant's philosophy of mathematics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 1997

142 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Brittan believes that in this passage Kant is op... more 142 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Brittan believes that in this passage Kant is opposing Leibniz in particular, albeit without mentioning his name in so many words.2 Certainly Leibniz regarded the principle of contradiction or identity as the great foundation of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Hobbes's logic: language and scientific method

History and Philosophy of Logic, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Hobbes's logic: language and scientific method

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01445348608837095, Nov 2, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The analytic-synthetic distinction and the classical model of science: Kant, Bolzano and Frege

Synthese, 2010

This paper concentrates on some aspects of the history of the analyticsynthetic distinction from ... more This paper concentrates on some aspects of the history of the analyticsynthetic distinction from Kant to Bolzano and Frege. This history evinces considerable continuity but also some important discontinuities. The analytic-synthetic distinction has to be seen in the first place in relation to a science, i.e. an ordered system of cognition. Looking especially to the place and role of logic it will be argued that Kant, Bolzano and Frege each developed the analytic-synthetic distinction within the same conception of scientific rationality, that is, within the Classical Model of Science: scientific knowledge as cognitio ex principiis. But as we will see, the way the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments or propositions functions within this model turns out to differ considerably between them.

Research paper thumbnail of Kant's theory of geometrical reasoning and the analytic-synthetic distinction. On Hintikka's interpretation of Kant's philosophy of mathematics

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 1997

142 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Brittan believes that in this passage Kant is op... more 142 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Brittan believes that in this passage Kant is opposing Leibniz in particular, albeit without mentioning his name in so many words.2 Certainly Leibniz regarded the principle of contradiction or identity as the great foundation of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Hobbes's logic: language and scientific method

History and Philosophy of Logic, 1986

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