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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
4539 The forms of 'knowledge' about logic which precede experience are actually regulations of belief [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: The basic laws of logic (identity and contradiction) are said to be forms of pure knowledge because they precede experience. But these are not forms of knowledge at all! They are regulative articles of belief.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §530)
     A reaction: This is a standard objection to foundationalism - that the basic beliefs (of reason, or raw experience) are not actually knowledge. We can all speculate about their origin and basis. Personally I think 'truth' must be somewhere in the explanation.