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36 AFFINITY

original stimulation of consciousness, affection stimulates the associative

processes ofpassive synthesis.See also

AFFINITY; ASSO CIATION.

AFFINITY. Affinity is the similarity of intentional contents by virtue of

which different experiences are brought into an associational relationship.

The affinity of the content of a previous experience with what is affectively

present in primal impression intentionally motivates the recollection of

those past experiences into the living present, thereby reproducing their

affective force in constituting the subjects present understanding of the

object. See also AFFECTION; ASSOCIATION; PASSIVE SY NTHESIS.

ANALOGIZING APPRESENTATION. Analogizing appresentation is a

moment involved in empathy and ourencounter of other subjects. In

particular, it involves a subjects recognition of the other subject as another

animate organism like itself. In encountering the bodily movements, the

expressive gestures and bodily changes, and the speech of another, the

subject at the same time appresents the consciousness of the other animate

organism. W hat makes this appresentation unique is that it cannot be

transformed by activities of the experiencing agent into a presentation of

what had previously been appresented. See also APPERCEPTION;

PAIRING.

ANALYTIC A PRIORI LAW. An analytic a priori law is an uncondition-

ally universal proposition free from all material content and from any

explicit or implicit assertion of individual existence. T he d istinction

be tween analytic a priori laws and synthetic a priori laws is based on the

fundamental distinction between purely formal categories and material

regions. Analytic a priori laws are grounded purely in formal categoriesand are unaffected by material concepts. See also ANALYTICALLY

NECESSARY PROPOSITION.

ANALYTICALLY NECESSARY PROPOSITION. An analytic a priori

law stands opposed to its specifications. An analytic law is specified by

introducing material concepts or positings of individual existence into the

purely formal relationship articulated in the law. The specifications of an

analytic law always yield analytically necessary propositions. Analytically

necessary propositions, then, are those whose truth is completely independ-ent of the particular content of their objects. They are c apa ble of a

complete formalization and can be regarded as special cases or empirical

applications of the formal, analytic laws whose validity is apparent in their

formal statement. In an analytic proposition it must be possible, without

altering the propositions logical form, to replace all material that has