back to ideas for this text


Single Idea 15165

[from 'Necessity, Essence and Individuation' by Alan Sidelle, in 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic ]

Full Idea

The a priori method yields a priori knowledge, and the objects of this knowledge are not facts about the world, but analytic truths.

Gist of Idea

A priori knowledge is entirely of analytic truths

Source

Alan Sidelle (Necessity, Essence and Individuation [1989], Ch.1)

Book Reference

Sidelle,Alan: 'Necessity, Essence and Individuation' [Cornell 1989], p.1


A Reaction

Are we not allowed any insights at all into how the world must be, independent of how we happen to conceptualise it?