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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Meno'
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
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Kant's shift of view enables us to see a priority in terms of mental capacity, not truth and propositions [Burge on Kant]
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A priori knowledge is limited to objects of possible experience [Kant, by Jolley]
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A priori knowledge occurs absolutely independently of all experience [Kant]
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One sort of a priori knowledge just analyses given concepts, but another ventures further [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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Experienceless bodies have space; propertyless bodies have substance; this must be seen a priori [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / b. Recollection doctrine
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Seeking and learning are just recollection [Plato]
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The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection [Plato]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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Two plus two objects make four objects even if experience is impossible, so Kant is wrong [Russell on Kant]
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Propositions involving necessity are a priori, and pure a priori if they only derive from other necessities [Kant]
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The apriori is independent of its sources, and marked by necessity and generality [Kant, by Burge]
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A priori knowledge is indispensable for the possibility and certainty of experience [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic
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Seeing that only one parallel can be drawn to a line through a given point is clearly synthetic a priori [Kant, by Benardete,JA]
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Kant bases the synthetic a priori on the categories of oneness and manyness [Kant, by Bowie]
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Kant showed that we have a priori knowledge which is not purely analytic [Kant, by Russell]
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We can think of 7 and 5 without 12, but it is still a contradiction to deny 7+5=12 [Ayer on Kant]
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That a straight line is the shortest is synthetic, as straight does not imply any quantity [Kant]
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That force and counter-force are equal is necessary, and a priori synthetic [Kant]
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The real problem of pure reason is: how are a priori synthetic judgments possible? [Kant]
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That two lines cannot enclose a space is an intuitive a priori synthetic proposition [Kant]
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Are a priori concepts necessary as a precondition for something to be an object? [Kant]
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7+5=12 is not analytic, because 12 is not contained in 7 or 5 or their combination [Kant]
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We possess synthetic a priori knowledge in our principles which anticipate experience [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason
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Reason contains within itself certain underived concepts and principles [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
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If, as Kant says, arithmetic and logic are contributed by us, they could change if we did [Russell on Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic
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No analysis of the sum of seven and five will in itself reveal twelve [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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For Kant analytic knowledge needs complex concepts, but the a priori can rest on the simple [Coffa on Kant]
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With large numbers it is obvious that we could never find the sum by analysing the concepts [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 10. A Priori as Subjective
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A priori the understanding can only anticipate possible experiences [Kant]
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