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Decide whether each of the following claims is: a) analytically true, (b) analytically false, c) not...

Decide whether each of the following claims is: a) analytically true, (b) analytically false, c) not analytic, or (d) impossible to classify (conceptually incoherent).

2) The helium atom is wearing a funny hat.

4) My dog is not a canine.

6) All three-sided figures are triangles.

8) Helping the helpless is praiseworthy.

10) She’s awake, because I see a light in the window.

12) Pornography degrades women.

14) All persons feel pain.

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2) The helium atom is wearing a funny hat.

d) This is a sentence that is impossible to classify. After all, the helium atom unable to wear a fully hat
. The sentence that says it is can be neither
true nor false.

4) My dog is not a canine.

c. Analytically false

Dog is a carnivorous animal with long canines. All dogs are canine.

6) All three-sided figures are triangles.

a. This is analytically true, given our convention that all three sided figures are triangles.

8) Helping the helpless is praiseworthy.

a) Analytically true

This is a tautology. Someone may express a positive attitude of helping others are good and praiseworthy persons.

10) She’s awake, because I see a light in the window.

b) Not analytic.

It is a claim about what is the most chance. One can provide evidence for or against it.

12) Pornography degrades women.

a) Analytically true.

Pornography not only degrading women; they portray the female body as a sexual object.also.

14) All persons feel pain.

a) Analytically true.

All persons experience pain with different tolerance level.

Analytic statements are ones that are true or false because of their form or because of the meanings of the words that make them up.

Those analytically true are tautologies.

Analytically false are contradictions.

  • Analytically True Statements: Self-evident statements that are necessarily true because of their form or because of the meanings of the words that make them up
  • Analytically False Statements: Statements that must be false because either their forms or the meanings of their terms make them self-contradictory. These statements are necessarily false.
  • The denial of an analytically true statement is a contradiction and cannot be true.

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