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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?
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]
| 20471 | Epistemic a priori conditions concern either the source, defeasibility or strength [Casullo] |
| 20472 | Analysis of the a priori by necessity or analyticity addresses the proposition, not the justification [Casullo] |
| 20475 | Maybe modal sentences cannot be true or false [Casullo] |
| 20476 | If the necessary is a priori, so is the contingent, because the same evidence is involved [Casullo] |
| 20477 | The main claim of defenders of the a priori is that some justifications are non-experiential [Casullo] |
| 20474 | 'Overriding' defeaters rule it out, and 'undermining' defeaters weaken in [Casullo] |
| 3913 | Maybe imagination is the source of a priori justification [Casullo] |