Full Idea
What non-experiential link to reality could support insights into its necessary character?
Gist of Idea
How could the mind have a link to the necessary character of reality?
Source
Michael Devitt (There is No A Priori (and reply) [2005], 4)
Book Reference
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Steup/Turri/Sosa [Wiley Blackwell 2014], p.193
A Reaction
The key to it, I think, is your theory of mind. If you are a substance dualist, then connecting to such deep things looks fine, but if you are a reductive physicalist then it looks absurdly hopeful.