Recent Debates about the a Priori

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Abstract At least from the time of the ancient Greeks, most philosophers have held that some of our knowledge is independent of experience, or ‘‘a priori’’. Indeed, a major tenet of the rationalist tradition in philoso-phy was that a great deal of our knowledge had this character: even Kant, a critic of some of the overblown claims of rationalism, thought that the structure of space could be known a priori, as could many of the fundamental principles of physics; and Hegel is reputed to have claimed to have deduced on a priori grounds that the number of planets is exactly five.

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