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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 Ref
'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?
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