Single Idea 4430

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts]

Full Idea

All a priori knowledge deals with the relations of universals.

Gist of Idea

All a priori knowledge deals with the relations of universals

Source

Bertrand Russell (Problems of Philosophy [1912], Ch.10)

Book Reference

Russell,Bertrand: 'The Problems of Philosophy' [OUP 1995], p.59

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A Reaction

A nice bold proposition, and remarkably Platonic for a famous empiricist. But then a priori knowledge of particulars sounds unlikely.