Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Archimedes, A.J. Ayer and Saul A. Kripke

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
8259 Kripke has breathed new life into the a priori/a posteriori distinction [Kripke, by Lowe]
16989 Rather than 'a priori truth', it is best to stick to whether some person knows it on a priori evidence [Kripke]
4947 A priori truths can be known independently of experience - but they don't have to be [Kripke]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
5198 We could verify 'a thing can't be in two places at once' by destroying one of the things [Ierubino on Ayer]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic
2619 Whether geometry can be applied to reality is an empirical question outside of geometry [Ayer]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
5197 By changing definitions we could make 'a thing can't be in two places at once' a contradiction [Ayer]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic
17052 The a priori analytic truths involving fixing of reference are contingent [Kripke]
13975 Kripke was more successful in illuminating necessity than a priority (and their relations to analyticity) [Kripke, by Soames]
17048 Analytic judgements are a priori, even when their content is empirical [Kripke]
5204 To say that a proposition is true a priori is to say that it is a tautology [Ayer]