It is also sometimes said that an analytic proposition is one whose denial is self-contradictory.
To know an analytic proposition, Kant argued, one need not consult experience.
Thus, to know an analytic proposition is true, one need merely examine the concept of the subject.
It follows, second: There is no problem understanding how we can know analytic propositions.
Most people would consider such an utterance to represent an analytic proposition which is true a priori.
Thus the laws of logic, being paradigmatic cases of analytic propositions, are not immune to revision.
The distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions was first introduced by Kant.
In the former case analytic propositions are tautological.
Here analytic proposition refers to an analytic truth, a statement in natural language that is true solely because of the terms involved.
Kosuth explains that works of conceptual art are analytic propositions.