Single Idea 19565

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities]

Full Idea

What non-experiential link to reality could support insights into its necessary character?

Gist of Idea

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

Source

Michael Devitt (There is No A Priori (and reply) [2005], 4)

Book Reference

'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Steup/Turri/Sosa [Wiley Blackwell 2014], p.193


A Reaction

The key to it, I think, is your theory of mind. If you are a substance dualist, then connecting to such deep things looks fine, but if you are a reductive physicalist then it looks absurdly hopeful.