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Ideas for 'Folk Psychology', 'Tractatus de corpore Christi' and 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap'

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic

18263	The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa]
	Full Idea: The semantic tradition's problem was the a priori; its enemy, Kantian pure intuition; its purpose, to develop a conception of the a priori in which pure intuition played no role; its strategy, to base that theory on a development of semantics.
	From: J. Alberto Coffa (The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap [1991], 2 Intro)
	A reaction: It seems to me that intuition, in the modern sense, has been unnecessarily demonised. I would define it as 'rational insights which cannot be fully articulated'. Sherlock Holmes embodies it.

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

18272	Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa]
	Full Idea: The trouble with Platonism had always been its inability to define a priori knowledge in a way that made it possible for human beings to have it.
	From: J. Alberto Coffa (The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap [1991], 7 'What')
	A reaction: This is the famous argument of Benacerraf 1973.