An analytic statement is one that is true because of logical connections and the meaning of terms.
An analytic statement is one that is true because of logical connections and the meaning of terms.
An example would be "All bachelors are single." We know that this is true, not by doing an empirical investigation, but by understanding the terms and logical connections. Since "bachelor" means "single man," the statement means "All single men are single."
Ayer recognizes that analytic statements don't have to be empirically verifiable in order to make truth claims.
An analytic statement is one that is true because of logical connections and the meaning of terms.
If you don't understand "analytic," then you won't understand Ayer's verifiability criterion of meaning. This says that truth claims (except for analytic ones) must be empirically verifiable.