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What is an analytical statement?

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Analytic Statement: a statement the truth value of which is determined by the meanings of its terms;e.g., "All squares are four-sided." It is sometimes said (e.g. by Kant), when a statement is in simple subject-predicate form, that an analytic statement is one in which the predicate (e.g., the property of being four-sided) is-"contained within" the subject (the concept of a square).

Examples of analytic sentences include: Frozen water is ice. Bachelors are unmarried men.

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