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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'In Defence of Pure Reason' and 'A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

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?

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

19395	Philosophy is sanctified, because it flows from God [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Philosophy is sanctified by having its streams flow from the fountain of God's attributes.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature [1687], p.69)