Gelhard, James: Hume, Kant, the Logical Positivists, and Quine on the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction

The analytic-synthetic distinction is a topic relevant to both the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. In dealing with subject-predicate distinctions, the analytic-synthetic distinction attempts to demonstrate what we can say. At the same time, through a priori- a posteriori distinctions, the analytic-synthetic distinction attempts to demonstrate what we can know. For these reasons, the analytic-synthetic distinction became one of the biggest controversies from early modern philos