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3695 | Philosophy is a priori if it is anything [Bonjour] |
Full Idea: My conviction is that philosophy is a priori if it is anything. | |
From: Laurence Bonjour (In Defence of Pure Reason [1998], Pref) | |
A reaction: How about knowledge of a posteriori necessities, such as the length of a metre, known by observation of the standard metre in Paris? |
112 | Most people are readier to submit to compulsion than to argument [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: Most people are readier to submit to compulsion and punishment than to argument and fine ideals. | |
From: Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1180a05) | |
A reaction: How perceptively pessimistic. We must hope that the picture has changed now that we have fairly universal education. Some people may submit to argument, but NOT to fine ideals. |