Synthetic sentence
Are you sure that a scientific generalization creates a synthetic sentence?
For example, every tree is burned by fire.
Let's assume that this is true, so it means that wood by definition is something that burns in fire. So it's analytical (except that we didn't know this before), you only need to know what wood is to know that it burns in fire. This is in contrast to the statement "a ball is heavy", which is synthetic because some balls are heavy and some are not.
Where did I miss something?
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The question is, is it possible for a world where wood will not burn in fire? I think so. If the laws of nature there are different. And that means that this is not an analytical property of wood and fire but of the laws of nature of our world. Therefore, it is not analytical. Similarly, mass can also stand in the air in a world where there is no gravitational force. Again, the claim that bodies fall is synthetic and not analytical. If you also include the laws of nature, you will get an analytical claim, but that is not interesting.
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