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Definition of Synthetical
1. Adjective. Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis. "Limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"
Antonyms: Analytic
Derivative terms: Synthesis, Synthesis, Synthesis, Synthesis
2. Adjective. Of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts. "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"
Category relationships: Logic
Also: A Posteriori, Inductive, Logical
Antonyms: Analytic
Derivative terms: Synthesis
Definition of Synthetical
1. Adjective. synthetic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Synthetical
Literary usage of Synthetical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Accordingly, the supreme principle of all synthetical judgments is: Every object
is subject to the necessary conditions of the synthetical unity of the ..."
2. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1887)
"Upon such synthetical, that is augmentative propositions, depends the whole ...
But the notion is fallacious ; for although a synthetical proposition can ..."
3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1855)
"Of the Supreme Principle of all synthetical Judgments. THE explanation of the
possibility of synthetical judgments is a task with which general Logic has ..."
4. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANALYTICAL AND synthetical JUDGMENTS In all ... But the
addition of such a predicate therefore, it becomes a synthetical judgment. ..."
5. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"are universal and necessary, and at the same time, synthetical (' adding to our
conception of the subject a predicate not contained in it'), they cannot be ..."
6. A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason: Translated from The by Kuno Fischer, John Pentland Mahaffy (1866)
"We declare, then, that all knowledge consists in synthetical judgments.* 2.
synthetical Judgments a priori.—Tet this explanation does not fully explain ..."
7. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1881)
"P. 9] V. In all theoretical Sciences of reason synthetical Judgments a priori
... This, however, was a mistake : for though a synthetical proposition may be ..."
8. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Accordingly, the supreme principle of all synthetical judgments is: Every object
is subject to the necessary conditions of the synthetical unity of the ..."
9. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1887)
"Upon such synthetical, that is augmentative propositions, depends the whole ...
But the notion is fallacious ; for although a synthetical proposition can ..."
10. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1855)
"Of the Supreme Principle of all synthetical Judgments. THE explanation of the
possibility of synthetical judgments is a task with which general Logic has ..."
11. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANALYTICAL AND synthetical JUDGMENTS In all ... But the
addition of such a predicate therefore, it becomes a synthetical judgment. ..."
12. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"are universal and necessary, and at the same time, synthetical (' adding to our
conception of the subject a predicate not contained in it'), they cannot be ..."
13. A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason: Translated from The by Kuno Fischer, John Pentland Mahaffy (1866)
"We declare, then, that all knowledge consists in synthetical judgments.* 2.
synthetical Judgments a priori.—Tet this explanation does not fully explain ..."
14. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1881)
"P. 9] V. In all theoretical Sciences of reason synthetical Judgments a priori
... This, however, was a mistake : for though a synthetical proposition may be ..."