Definition of "analyticity" []

• The property of being analytic. (noun)

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• "Moreover, Carnap held that explication of the notion of analyticity in formal languages yielded the kind of precision that rendered the complaint of circularity irrelevant: vague intuitions of meaning were no longer relied upon."
• "Concerning the criticism of the circular nature of the definition of analyticity, Carnap responded that it pertained primarily to the idea of analyticity in natural language whereas he was interested in"
• "So it may appear that the notion of analyticity is easily delimitable in Carnap's explicational approach: analytic propositions would be those that constitute a logico-linguistic framework."