A Priori Truths

Greg Restall*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCentral Issues of Philosophy
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Pages37-50
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9781405162708
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Sept 2009

Keywords

  • a priori truth - known independently of any particular evidence or experience
  • a priori truths - philosophers and love of a priori knowledge
  • a priority and infallibility and unrevisability
  • a priority, necessity, analyticity, and infallibility
  • Externalism and skepticism
  • Gödel's justly celebrated incompleteness theorem
  • Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and notions of necessity, analyticity and a priority
  • Kant's examples of synthetic a priori knowledge from mathematics
  • Notion of independence
  • Valid deductive reasoning and a priori knowledge on basis of logical structure

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