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Ideas for 'works', 'Epistemological Disjunctivism' and 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
11239 The notion of a priori truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
     Full Idea: The notion of a priori truth is conspicuously absent in Aristotle.
     From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.5
     A reaction: Cf. Idea 11240.
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic
2794 Knowing that a cow is not a horse seems to be a synthetic a priori truth [Dancy,J]
     Full Idea: The fact that a cow is not a horse is a candidate for a priori synthetic truth. It doesn't seem to be analytic, because you can know what a cow is without knowing what a horse is.
     From: Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 14.3)