2279 | A triangle has a separate non-invented nature, shown by my ability to prove facts about it [Descartes] |
2602 | What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes] |
5012 | 'Nothing comes from nothing' is an eternal truth found within the mind [Descartes] |
9344 | Mathematical analysis ends in primitive principles, which cannot be and need not be demonstrated [Leibniz] |
9155 | An a priori proof is independent of experience [Leibniz] |
5404 | Two plus two objects make four objects even if experience is impossible, so Kant is wrong [Russell on Kant] |
9345 | Propositions involving necessity are a priori, and pure a priori if they only derive from other necessities [Kant] |
16893 | The apriori is independent of its sources, and marked by necessity and generality [Kant, by Burge] |
9347 | A priori knowledge is indispensable for the possibility and certainty of experience [Kant] |
9352 | An a priori truth is one derived from general laws which do not require proof [Frege] |
16889 | A truth is a priori if it can be proved entirely from general unproven laws [Frege] |
16894 | An apriori truth is grounded in generality, which is universal quantification [Frege, by Burge] |
5397 | The rationalists were right, because we know logical principles without experience [Russell] |
5198 | We could verify 'a thing can't be in two places at once' by destroying one of the things [Ierubino on Ayer] |
9354 | Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt] |
19565 | How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality? [Devitt] |
20472 | Analysis of the a priori by necessity or analyticity addresses the proposition, not the justification [Casullo] |
14712 | A sentence is a priori if no possible way the world might actually be could make it false [Chalmers] |
9369 | 'Snow is white or it isn't' is just true, not made true by stipulation [Boghossian] |