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HES: RE: QUERY--Economics vs. Political Economy
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[log in to unmask] (J Kevin Quinn)
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Tue Jun 17 08:10:49 2008
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Alan- I think I was making identifying "self-evident" with "analytic," and your mathematical example persuades me that I was wrong. Kant would certainly call "4+3 =7" a synthetic statement and it does indeed appear self-evident. Sorry.

J Kevin Quinn

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