Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Mulligan/Simons/Smith and Willard Quine
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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A sentence is obvious if it is true, and any speaker of the language will instantly agree to it [Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
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Examination of convention in the a priori begins to blur the distinction with empirical knowledge [Quine]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic
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Metaphysical analyticity (and linguistic necessity) are hopeless, but epistemic analyticity is a priori [Boghossian on Quine]
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Quine challenges the claim that analytic truths are knowable a priori [Quine, by Kitcher]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori
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Quine's objections to a priori knowledge only work in the domain of science [Horwich on Quine]
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Science is empirical, simple and conservative; any belief can hence be abandoned; so no a priori [Quine, by Horwich]
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Logic, arithmetic and geometry are revisable and a posteriori; quantum logic could be right [Horwich on Quine]
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