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<noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>A distinction used in philosophy to divide an [[ontology]] into two parts: an analytic part consisting of terms related by synonymy, and a synthetic part concerning connections between such terms and 'real' objects.
<noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>A distinction used in philosophy to divide an [[Ontology (philosophy)|ontology]] into two parts: an analytic part consisting of terms related by synonymy, and a synthetic part concerning connections between such terms and 'real' objects.

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A definition or brief description of Analytic-synthetic distinction.

A distinction used in philosophy to divide an ontology into two parts: an analytic part consisting of terms related by synonymy, and a synthetic part concerning connections between such terms and 'real' objects.