2. Types of Statement
• Philosophers have considered it a necessary tool to classify two meaningful
types of statements based on two sources that could be accepted and
verified.
• They came up with two meaningful types which could be traced on the
impericist tradition of david hume.
• These were the two meaningful types of statements and theyare known as
analytic and empirical statements.
3. Analytic Statement
• The truth or falsity of the knowledge claim that being made by an analytic
statement could be found within the statement itself. in other words you do
not need go outside the statement to search whether the claim is true or
false.
4. Empirical Statement
• Empirical statements are different from analytical statements because their
truth or falsity depends on the state of affairs being claimed.
• Here, the knowledge claim being made is not dependent on the definitions or
tautologous statements whose truth are contained within itself, but the truth
or falsity being claimed by an empirical statement rest on its correspondence
on the facts or with current situation.
5. Evaluative/Normative Statement
• An evaluative/normative statement is a statement containing evaluative
terms.
• Evaluative terms are meant to express approval or disapproval, value or
disvalue, like or dislike, importance or unimportance. Disciplines that deal
with evaluative or normative statements are usually found in the field of
ethics, aesthetics, and religion among others.
7. Formal Knowledge
- It corresponds to knowledge in the formal sciences whose main concern validation of
their knowledge claims within the formal system in their respective discipline.
-Formal Knowledge is concerned with the coherence of the concepts and ideas within
a particular system that is being employed.
-This could be logical, mathematical, linguistic or any formal system whose method of
method of validation depends intirely on the particular system being used.
8. Empirical Knowledge
- Is the general term used to describe the different disciplines in the empirical
sciences, ranging from hard sciences of physics, chemistry, biology and others to the
soft sciences of sociology, political science, psychology, and others.
-In as much as empirical statements use the faculty of experience and sense of
perception in order to establish their knowledge claims.
-Empirical knowledge also takes emphasis and make use of data or content from
experience and its correspondence with the state of affairs to establish the truth or
falsity of their knowledge claims from these emperical sciences.
