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Full Idea
One potential source of a priori knowledge is the innate structure of our minds. We might, for example, have an a priori commitment to classical logic.
Gist of Idea
A priori knowledge (e.g. classical logic) may derive from the innate structure of our minds
Source
Paul Horwich (Stipulation, Meaning and Apriority [2000], §11)
Book Ref
'New Essays on the A Priori', ed/tr. Boghossian,P /Peacocke,C [OUP 2000], p.168
A Reaction
Horwich points out that to be knowledge it must also say that we ought to believe it. I'm wondering whether if we divided the whole territory of the a priori up into intuitions and then coherent justifications, the whole problem would go away.
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| 5567 | A priori the understanding can only anticipate possible experiences [Kant] |
| 16914 | A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant] |
| 16909 | Logic is a priori because we cannot think illogically [Wittgenstein] |
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