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A dominant paradigm - Statements and their concepts - Types of statements

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Statement is true on the basis of its logical form, and is also called....

logica/ or tautoloqical statement.

Example: a triangle has three sides

These statements say nothing about empirical reality. These are

statements a-priorr (without prior knowledge) are true, and are also called 'a-priori statements'

Synthetic statements should be verifiable or empirical.

This statement says something about reality and only through observation can it be ascertained whether the statement is correct or not. These statements are also referred to as 'a-posteriori (afterwards).

The inductive-statistical (I-S) model

You draw up a 'legality', based on an inductive principle: in a number of individual cases (singular
pronouncements) conclude with a general statement (universal pronouncement).

The logical structure of an I-S declaration is the same as that of a D-N declaration, except that it is not
a deterministic legality but a probabilistic {%).

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