A priori knowledge
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- A priori knowledge
- Hume
- Says we have 'relations of ideas'.
- E.g. analytic truths, which are truths that are true by definition but tell us nothing about the world.
- E.g. 'All bachelors are unmarried men' as the definition of a bachelor is an unmarried man.
- I do not need to consult my sense experience to know this, even though I learnt the concepts 'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' via experience, but after I have learnt these no further experience is required.
- E.g. analytic truths, which are truths that are true by definition but tell us nothing about the world.
- E.g. 'All bachelors are unmarried men' as the definition of a bachelor is an unmarried man.
- I do not need to consult my sense experience to know this, even though I learnt the concepts 'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' via experience, but after I have learnt these no further experience is required.
- I do not need to consult my sense experience to know this, even though I learnt the concepts 'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' via experience, but after I have learnt these no further experience is required.
- E.g. 'All bachelors are unmarried men' as the definition of a bachelor is an unmarried man.
- E.g. analytic truths, which are truths that are true by definition but tell us nothing about the world.
- I do not need to consult my sense experience to know this, even though I learnt the concepts 'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' via experience, but after I have learnt these no further experience is required.
- E.g. 'All bachelors are unmarried men' as the definition of a bachelor is an unmarried man.
- E.g. analytic truths, which are truths that are true by definition but tell us nothing about the world.
- Says we have 'relations of ideas'.
- Descartes
- He says we have a priori knowledge of God, which he attempts to prove with the Trademark and Ontological argument.
- The Trademark argument says that God is a perfect being and as nothing in the world is perfect I cannot have got the idea of God via sense experience, meaning he must have put the idea in my before birth.
- This is a deductive argument, so if all the conditions are sound then this is a valid example of innate knowledge.
- The Trademark argument says that God is a perfect being and as nothing in the world is perfect I cannot have got the idea of God via sense experience, meaning he must have put the idea in my before birth.
- He also proves his own existence via a priori knowledge (the Cogito) as clear and distinct perceptions are a type of a priori knowledge.
- He says we have a priori knowledge of God, which he attempts to prove with the Trademark and Ontological argument.
- Hume
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