Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Anylatische Propositionen und Prinzipien; Anselm: ontologisches Argument; kontingent; Kausalgesetz

Kurzinhalt: Analytic Propositions and Principles; if A, then B; A; therefore B; Übergang von analyt: Proposition -> Prinzip: Tatsachenurteil;

Textausschnitt: () If you define any A as what has a relation to B, that is, if by definition A is what has a relation R to B, then you can say ... We have here, then, an example of a virtually unconditioned. The proposition 'If there is an A there is a relation R to B' is conditioned; it is true under certain circumstances or conditions. What are the conditions? The conditions to be fulfilled are fulfilled by a definition:
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Analyticity is simply the structure of the judgment: If A, then B; A; therefore B. The judgment, as resting upon a virtually unconditioned, is resting upon that structure; and that structure, as a structure, is something that can be satisfied by rules of syntax and definitions made ad hoc.
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In other words, an analytic proposition becomes an analytic principle in the measure that the defined terms in their defined sense occur in concrete judgments of fact.
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Let us take an illustration from the ontological argument for the existence of God. Necessary existence exists necessarily. This is at least an analytic proposition; ... However, if you can say that there exists a necessary existence, that there is something that exists necessarily, then you transform the analytic proposition into an analytic principle. In other words, the ontological argument is valid if God exists.
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