Questions tagged [analysis]
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What decides when a conceptual analysis is 'complete'?
When an analysis of a concept is given like
"A bachelor is an unmarried male." How is it decided if the analysis is correct and complete? Is there any way we can 'check' an analysis?
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Which question is right for functional analysis?
I'm trying to understand functional analysis (Cummins, R. view) but i'm confused about how to perform it, which questions to ask.
"The Analytical Strategy proceeds by analyzing a disposition
into a number of other relatively less…
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Why does Kant say that some imperatives are analytically justified?
In the Groundwork and the second Critique, IIRC, Kant for some reason tries to explain the "argument" for the categorical imperative as synthetic a priori. He does this not just for assertoric forms of the CI, but also the purely prescriptive form…
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In the context of Frege, what is the idea behind conceptual analysis in simple words?
I am reading this Stanford entry behind the Hilbert-Frege debate. I get confused everytime the phrase "Conceptual Analysis mentioned". Here are some extracts:
The idea that Frege takes logical entailment to be sensitive to conceptual analysis in…
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Why doesn't a conceptual analysis depend upon necessity?
It makes sense to me that when proposing an analysis of a property we should be certain about what that analysis is. To achieve this certainty I think that necessity would be the ideal way to determine what those properties are. But it seems that…
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How to perform a conceptual analysis?
What is conceptual analysis and how do we perform it? An example of the kind of conceptual analysis I'm talking about is the analysis of the property of being a bachelor into the property of being unmarried and being male. Is such analysis just…
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Is conceptual analysis recursive?
For example given the explanandum "the kettle has the ability to boil water" analyzed into a set of explananas:
1. "the kettle has the ability to store water"
2. "the kettle has the ability to heat the water"
3. "the kettle has the ability to draw…
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Paradox of analysis - what's wrong with this solution?
Reading about the paradox of analysis here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_analysis
Instead of the brother=male sibling example given in the article, suppose we use "triangle" instead. So 3 ways I can refer to a triangle are:
triangle
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Wouldn’t analysis still be useful with a naturalized notion of contradiction?
I wonder why analysis receives so much attention when it’s very narrow with how we experience the world. That is its focus on logical and mathematical proofs.
One reason for this focus must be its success at studying scientific and mathematical…
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Universal Analytic Framework
I've been working on a philosophical framework called Universal Analytic Framework. This is actually a personal philosophical project. I am in the process of designing a framework that has fluidity, modularity, universality, diachronicity,…
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Should an analysis be obligatory, permissible or optional?
I am not sure if the analysis i want to make is supposed to be obligatory, optional or permissible. Can anyone help me decide which one an analysis should be?
By analysis i mean a a proposition that describes the composition of properties. An…
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Analytically, what is the difference between the essay questions: "What does it mean to argue that X?", and "Is it the case that X?"
I'm trying to work out the best way to approach this (3rd year undergraduate) essay titled in the form "What does it mean to argue that X?", and I'm having difficulty expressing a case for what it means to argue something as opposed to just…
