01:730:329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: A Priori And A Posteriori, Physicalism
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A priori - knowledge that"s present prior to experience. Conceptual truth - once you get the concepts involved with the truth, you see that it is true. If one were to not understand this concept, then it most likely means that there is a fundamental misunderstanding with the concept of color and red. Basically, all these examples state truths about a concept such that if it weren"t true, then something is wrong. Finding the thesis is very important in a phil paper. Thesis: conceivability arguments do not succeed in establishing their conclusions. That is bc what they reveal doesn"t have to do with phenomenal consciousness itself; but rather with the nature of the phenomenal concept. A statement s is conceivable if it is consistent with all the conceptual truths. If it is consistent with the totality of the conceptual truths.
