Single Idea 3887

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic]

Full Idea

'Every event has a cause' and 'truth is correspondence to facts' are candidates for being synthetic a priori knowledge.

Clarification

'Synthetic a priori' is 'known to be a fact about reality just by thinking'

Gist of Idea

Maybe our knowledge of truth and causation is synthetic a priori

Source

Roger Scruton (Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey [1994], 13.2)

Book Reference

Scruton,Roger: 'Modern Philosophy: introduction and survey' [Sinclair-Stevenson 1994], p.162

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