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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Every Thing Must Go' and 'There is no a Priori'
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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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 / 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 / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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Rationalism tries to apply mathematical methodology to all of knowledge [Shapiro]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
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Rats find some obvious associations easier to learn than less obvious ones [Ladyman/Ross]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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The doctrine of empiricism does not itself seem to be empirically justified [Ladyman/Ross]
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
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There is no reason to think our intuitions are good for science or metaphysics [Ladyman/Ross]
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