Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Dennis Whitcomb, C.I. Lewis and Tyler Burge

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

16892	Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition? [Burge]
	Full Idea: Whereas Leibniz and Frege predicate apriority primarily of truths (or more fundamentally, proofs of truths), Kant predicates apriority primarily of cognition and the employment of representations.
	From: Tyler Burge (Frege on Apriority (with ps) [2000], 1)

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention

9365	We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI]
	Full Idea: The a priori contains principles which can be maintained in the face of all experience, representing the initiative of the mind. But they are subject to alteration on pragmatic grounds, if expanding experience shows their intellectual infelicity.
	From: C.I. Lewis (A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori [1923], p.373)
	A reaction: [compressed] This simply IS Quine's famous 'web of belief' picture, showing how firmly Quine is in the pragmatist tradition. Lewis treats a priori principles as a pragmatic toolkit, which can be refined to be more effective. Not implausible...