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[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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Full Idea
Examining accurate concepts can help us acquire true beliefs about the world, examining justified concepts can help us acquire justified beliefs about the world, and examining grounded concepts can help us acquire knowledge of it.
Gist of Idea
Examining accurate, justified or grounded concepts brings understanding of the world
Source
Carrie Jenkins (Grounding Concepts [2008], 4.4)
Book Ref
Jenkins,Carrie: 'Grounding Concepts' [OUP 2008], p.131
A Reaction
This summarises Jenkins's empirical account of concepts, and I love it all to bits. I feel that contemporary philosophy is beginning to produce a coherent naturalistic worldview which can replace religion. Bar the rituals. We can have priests...
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[a priori knowledge only arises from our concepts]:
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1824
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To name something, you must already have an idea of what it is
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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2191
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Relations of ideas are known by thought, independently from the world
[Hume]
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18262
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For Kant analytic knowledge needs complex concepts, but the a priori can rest on the simple
[Coffa on Kant]
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5526
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With large numbers it is obvious that we could never find the sum by analysing the concepts
[Kant]
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16915
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A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses
[Kant]
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4430
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All a priori knowledge deals with the relations of universals
[Russell]
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5411
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We can know some general propositions by universals, when no instance can be given
[Russell]
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9353
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We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical
[Devitt]
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13406
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A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant
[Papineau]
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12389
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Knowledge is a priori if the experience giving you the concepts thus gives you the knowledge
[Kitcher]
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9341
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Meanings and concepts cannot give a priori knowledge, because they may be unacceptable
[Horwich]
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9334
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If we stipulate the meaning of 'number' to make Hume's Principle true, we first need Hume's Principle
[Horwich]
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2727
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Red and green being exclusive colours seems to be rationally graspable but not analytic
[Audi,R]
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2728
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The concepts needed for a priori thought may come from experience
[Audi,R]
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Examining accurate, justified or grounded concepts brings understanding of the world
[Jenkins]
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