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'Against Coherence', 'Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations)' and 'There is no a Priori'
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
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For Frege a priori knowledge derives from general principles, so numbers can't be primitive [Frege]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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Mathematicians just accept self-evidence, whether it is logical or intuitive [Frege]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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An a priori truth is one derived from general laws which do not require proof [Frege]
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A truth is a priori if it can be proved entirely from general unproven laws [Frege]
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Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic
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Frege tried to explain synthetic a priori truths by expanding the concept of analyticity [Frege, by Katz]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori
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The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
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Intuitions cannot be communicated [Frege, by Burge]
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