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The distinction between analytic and synthetic has often been criticized by authors who have not understood and mastered it. A famous philosopher such as Schleiermacher and famous logicians such as Lotze, Sigwart and Trendelenburg were guilty of such lack of understanding but can be refuted by showing that they confused a concept with its extension, thereby falling into a kind of logicism.
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Notes
- 1.
See Lotze (1874, §57, pp. 79–80).
- 2.
See Lotze (1874, §58, pp. 80–81).
- 3.
See Sigwart (1889, §18, p. 137).
- 4.
See Trendelenburg (1862, vol. II, §XVI, p. 241).
- 5.
Schleiermacher’s course and notes on dialectics were published posthumously in Jonas (1839). The passage quoted by Nelson is on p. 563 of that edition.
- 6.
See Sigwart (1889, §18, pp. 134–135). This is an example of the bland interpretation of Kant’s example; see Footnote 4 in Chapter “Lecture V” above. It is pretty obvious that Sigwart is not thinking of the momentous discovery of the law of universal gravitation, but only of the pedestrian observation that terrestrial bodies have weight.
- 7.
See Sigwart (1889, §18, p. 134).
References
Jonas, Ludwig, ed. 1839. Friedrich Schleiermacher: Dialektik. Berlin: Reimer [This is vol. 2 of section 2 of the posthumous edition of Schleiermacher’s works].
Lotze, Hermann. 1874. Logik: drei Bücher vom Denken, vom Untersuchen und vom Erkennen. Leipzig: Hirzel. [English translation Logic in three books of thought, of investigation, and of knowledge, ed. Bernard Bosanquet. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884].
Sigwart, Christoph. 1889. Logik, vol. I: Die Lehre vom Urteil, vom Begriff und vom Schluss, 2nd ed. Tübingen: Mohr. [English translation: Logic, vol. I: The judgment, concept, and inference. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1895].
Trendelenburg, Adolf. 1862. Logische Untersuchungen [Logical investigations], vol. 2, 2nd ed. Leipzig: Hirzel.
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Nelson, L. (2016). Lecture VI. In: A Theory of Philosophical Fallacies. Argumentation Library, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20783-4_7
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