Kant think that denying an analytic truth leads to contradiction, but denying a synthetic truth is strange but not contradicting, He use the judgements of experience as an example of synthetic.
he said," Judgment of experience are always synthetic. For it would be absurd to base an analytic judgment on experience, as our concept suffices for the purpose without requiring any testimony from experience."
he's right though because in class we talked about how an Analytic truth about all bachelors are unmarried, and the sythetic part is that if the bachelor are sport center. All bachelors are unmarried is the truth because being a bachelor means that u have to be unmarried, but being a bachelor don't necessarly means that u have to be sport center, even though most of them are.
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I also blogged about this topic. It's extremely clear that all bachelors are unmarried, making it an analytic truth. Not even bachelor watches sports center, just like not every bachelor is straight, has brown hair, etc. that list goes on. This is whree is becomes a synthetic truth because there is not contradiction when negated.
ur totally right about the "not even bachelor watches sports center, just like not every bachelor is straight, has brown hair, etc." they are the same concept. They are qualities that they expect the bachelors to have but not every bachelors will have it.
Kant says all judgements of experience are synthetic because if it were analytical it would be implied without having to experience it. Other than Kants example of synthic apriori, having a synthetic judgement implies it being a posteriori. As far as the bachelors, based on experience one might say all bachelors watch sports center. But as for the
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