 The “rational capacity” view and the “conventionalist” view agree that, in a broad sense, the epistemic ground of logical truths resides in our ability to analyze the meanings of their expressions, be these understood as conventions or as objective ideas. For this reason it can be said that they explain the apriority of logical truths in terms of their analyticity. (See the entry on the  analytic/synthetic distinction.)  Kant's explanation of the apriority of logical truths has seemed harder to  extricate.[4]  A long line of commentators of Kant has noted that, if Kant's view is that all logical truths are analytic, this would seem to be in tension with his characterizations of analytic truths. Kant characterizes analytic truths as those where the concept of the predicate is contained in or identical with the concept of the subject, and, more fundamentally, as those whose denial is contradictory. But it has appeared to those commentators that these characterizations, while applying to strict tautologies such as “Men are men” or “Bearded men are men”, would seem to leave out much of what Kant himself counts as logically true, including syllogisms such as (2) (see e.g. Mill 1843, bk. II, ch. vi, §5; Husserl 1901, vol. II, pt. 2, §66; Kneale and Kneale 1962, pp. 357–8; Parsons 1967; Maddy 1999). This and the apparent lack of clear pronouncements of Kant on the issue has led at least Maddy (1999) and Hanna (2001) to consider (though not accept) the hypothesis that Kant viewed some logical truths as synthetic a priori. On an interpretation of this sort, the apriority of many logical truths would be explained by the fact that they would be required by the cognitive structure of the transcendental subject, and specifically by the forms of  judgment.[5]  But the standard interpretation is to attribute to Kant the view that all logical truths are analytic (see e.g. Capozzi and Roncaglia 2009). On an interpretation of this sort, Kant's forms of judgment may be identified with logical concepts susceptible of analysis (see e.g. Allison 1983, pp. 126ff.). An extended defense of the interpretation that Kant viewed all logical truths as analytic, including a vindication of Kant against the objections of the line of commentators mentioned above, can be found in Hanna (2001), §3.1. A substantively Kantian contemporary theory of the epistemology of logic and its roots in cognition is developed in Hanna (2006); this theory does not seek to explain the apriority of logic in terms of its analyticity, and appeals instead to a specific kind of logical intuition and a specific cognitive logic faculty. (Compare also the anti-aprioristic and anti-analytic but broadly Kantian view of Maddy 2007, mentioned below.)