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Ideas for 'works', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'Necessity, Essence and Individuation'

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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 / 8. A Priori as Analytic

15165	A priori knowledge is entirely of analytic truths [Sidelle]
	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.
	From: Alan Sidelle (Necessity, Essence and Individuation [1989], Ch.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?