Single Idea 16892

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori]

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.

Gist of Idea

Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition?

Source

Tyler Burge (Frege on Apriority (with ps) [2000], 1)

Book Reference

Burge,Tyler: 'Truth, Thought, Reason (on Frege)' [OUP 2001], p.363

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