Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Michael Devitt and J Baggini / PS Fosl

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

4645	'A priori' does not concern how you learn a proposition, but how you show whether it is true or false [Baggini /Fosl]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9354	Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]

19565

How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality? [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9353	We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

9356	The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]

19564

Some knowledge must be empirical; naturalism implies that all knowledge is like that [Devitt]