Single Idea 3913

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 10. A Priori as Subjective]

Full Idea

Some maintain that experiments in imagination are the source of a priori justification.

Clarification

Imagination explores possible worlds

Gist of Idea

Maybe imagination is the source of a priori justification

Source

Albert Casullo (A priori/A posteriori [1992], p.1)

Book Reference

'A Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Dancy,J. /Sosa,E. [Blackwell 1993], p.1


A Reaction

What else could assessments of possibility and necessity be based on except imagination?

Related Ideas

Idea 9596 We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson]

Idea 9505 Empiricist saw imaginability and possibility as close, but now they seem remote [Bird]