Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction reveals that synthetic a priori judgments, such as mathematical and causal principles, yield necessaryconclusions without tracing back to mere self-evidence.
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a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
synthetic a priori judgment(Central point of disagreement between Kant and Stumpf)
In Kant's view, a necessary truth whose predicate adds information not contained in the subject, known independently of experience; Stumpf rejects this category as contradictory
synthetic judgment(Kant's epistemological classification of judgments, applied here to arithmetic)
A judgment whose truth cannot be established solely by analyzing the concepts contained in it, but requires going beyond those concepts (e.g., via intuition)