Amirhossein Zadyousefi; Davood Hosseini
Volume 4, Issue 3 , March 2014, , Pages 61-80
Abstract
Among contemporary Islamic philosophers Mr. Mesbah Yazdi is the only thinker that has a theory to define analytic propositions. This article which study and evaluate the theory, contains two sections. In the first section we will present ‘first definition’ of analytic propositions which we ...
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Among contemporary Islamic philosophers Mr. Mesbah Yazdi is the only thinker that has a theory to define analytic propositions. This article which study and evaluate the theory, contains two sections. In the first section we will present ‘first definition’ of analytic propositions which we have gained from his written works, and we present some examples which he considers as analytic proposition. Then argue that, according to ‘first definition’ we cannot count them as analytic propositions. In the second section we will present ’second definition‘ for analytic propositions which we have gained from his oral works, as a solution for objections to the ‘first definition’ of analytic propositions. In spite of this reformation, we will argue that his theory is not acceptable because of two reasons; the first reason is that his theory is vague and does not limit these propositions. The second reason is that there are some propositions that there is an agreement that they are analytic propositions, whereas his theory does not count them as analytic propositions
