Self-Assessment Question and Possible Answer

1. Briefly explain the differences between positivist's notion of analyticity and Kant's notion of a prioricity.

Ans.: There is one fundamental difference which sharply distinguishes positivist's notion of analyticity from Kant's notion of aprioricity. Analytic statements for positivists do not say anything about the real world and in this sense they are contentless and featureless. It is this contentless nature of analytic statements that distinguishes them from synthetic a priori statements of Kant.