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Ideas for 'Against Coherence', 'The Philosopher's Toolkit' and 'A Plea for Substitutional Quantification'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

4645	'A priori' does not concern how you learn a proposition, but how you show whether it is true or false [Baggini /Fosl]
	Full Idea: What makes something a priori is not the means by which it came to be known, but the means by which it can be shown to be true or false.
	From: J Baggini / PS Fosl (The Philosopher's Toolkit [2003], §4.01)
	A reaction: Helpful. Kripke in particular has labelled the notion as an epistemological one, but that does imply a method of acquiring it. Clearly I can learn an a priori truth by reading it the newspaper.