PHI 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tim Hortons, Modus Ponens, Logical Form

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

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For each of the following sentences, determine whether it is best interpreted as analytic, synthetic, or contradictory. Explain your answer: she worked on her paper for less than an hour because she worked on it for 45 minutes. Because a foot, by definition, contains twelve inches, this statement is analytic. This statement is synthetic. (1 mark) the truth or falsity of synthetic statements does not depend merely on the meaning of the terms. (or students may say that synthetic statements are neither true nor false by defintion. Because all analytic statements are true by definition, if all of your statements are analytic, by definition, they will all be true: socrates is so intelligent that every synthetic statement he makes is true by definition. Because synthetic statements are neither true nor false by definition, the statement is false by definition. (1 mark: aristophanes so misunderstood socrates that even his analytic statements about him are false by definition.