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Single Idea 16892
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
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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 Ref
Burge,Tyler: 'Truth, Thought, Reason (on Frege)' [OUP 2001], p.363
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Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications'
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16892
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Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition?
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16901
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The equivalent algebra model of geometry loses some essential spatial meaning
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16902
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Peano arithmetic requires grasping 0 as a primitive number
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9159
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You can't simply convert geometry into algebra, as some spatial content is lost
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We come to believe mathematical propositions via their grounding in the structure
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Given that thinking aims at truth, logic gives universal rules for how to do it
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3115
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Are meaning and expressed concept the same thing?
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If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus
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8126
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Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states
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8127
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Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like)
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8129
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Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge
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8131
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Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all
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We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language
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