Ideas from 'There is no a Priori' by Michael Devitt [2005], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology' (ed/tr Steup,M/Sosa,E) [Blackwell 2005,1-4051-0739-1]].
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori
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The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything
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