PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Empirical Evidence
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Analyric a priori = predicate is contained in the subject and can be known independent of experience. Synthetic a posteriori = predicate adds to the subject and can be known through experience. These are the two prongs of hume"s fork. Synthetic a priori = predicae adds to the subject and can be known independent of experience. Tells us about the world and can be known with necessity/universality. We generally assume that we have this kind of knowledge i. e. truths of logic, mathematics, metaphysics, morality. Knowledge is synthetic a priori and based in reason. Reason (alone) is unreliable route to genuine knowledge(emp) Sense experience (alone) is unreliable route to knowledge(rat) Fundamental truths about the world can be known a priori (rat) Only source of genuine knowledge is sense experience. Reason is more superior to sensory experience. Knowledge does not conform to its objects. We don"t get the world as it is .
