An analytic statement is one that is true because of the meaning of words.
An analytic statement is one that is true because of the meaning of words.
An example would be "All bachelors are single." We know that this is true, not by doing an empirical investigation, but by understanding the words and their logical connections. Since "bachelor" means "single man," the statement means "All single men are single."
Equivalently, an analytic statement is a statement that is true by definition.
An analytic statement is one that is true because of the meaning of words.
If you don't understand "analytic," then you won't understand logical positivism. This says that any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition).