Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Bertrand Russell and David Hume

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence

7554	Self-evidence is often a mere will-o'-the-wisp [Russell]

5412	Some propositions are self-evident, but their implications may also be self-evident [Russell]

5413	Particular instances are more clearly self-evident than any general principles [Russell]

5415	As shown by memory, self-evidence comes in degrees [Russell]

5416	If self-evidence has degrees, we should accept the more self-evident as correct [Russell]

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

5397	The rationalists were right, because we know logical principles without experience [Russell]

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

2191	Relations of ideas are known by thought, independently from the world [Hume]

4430	All a priori knowledge deals with the relations of universals [Russell]

5411	We can know some general propositions by universals, when no instance can be given [Russell]