An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

Some judgments only unpack a word. All bodies are extended adds nothing you did not already think in the word body, while all bodies are heavy adds something new. Call the first kind analytic and the second synthetic; only the second grows what you know.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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