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Analytic Method

Organon F, 2016, vol. 23, No 1, pp. 83-101.
Language: English
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Abstract

This paper proposes a non-trivial definition of the notion of analytic method. Working within the so-called instructional model of method, I distinguish three kinds of instructions which occur in methods: selective, executive, and declarative instructions. I discuss the relation between each of these and the analyticity of a method. Then I define the notions of an analytic use of an instruction and of an analytic instruction, which are at the basis of the proposed definition of an analytic method. Finally, I discuss the issue of circularity in the presented model which arises if we consider a finite agent testing a method for analyticity.

Keywords

Analytic method, analytic proposition, closure, instruction, knowledge base

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