T_Clark

This thread was never intended to be about Kant, although what he wrote is relevant to the discussion. As it says in the OP, the subject is "What do w...

When we went to Rumley's when I was in high school, my friend Bruce and I always ordered two chili-dogs and a coke each. Then we played "Hey Jude" twi...

One more thing - the way you are defining "a priori" is not the way it is normally used here on the forum. Again - not your fault.

I'm lost. Not your fault. I'll blame Kant.

Justified true belief is not a statement of fact, it is a definition of knowledge, and a non-standard one at that. Here is what I think of as a pretty...

You make it sound like everything I know is a priori. If I have to wait to know they are on the table till I pick them up, then they aren't even on th...

I was just reporting my understanding of how the tests were performed. If you'd like more detail, I'm sure it's published somewhere.

I'll let you decide for yourself. Here is my understanding of the test the psychologists use. Babies have been shown to respond to novelty. Seeing som...

There are lots of times in the regular old everyday world when it's important that I know how I know something and how certain I am. If I'm going to d...

The only meaningful definition of "knowledge" is information adequate to support action. Knowledge doesn't just sit there doing nothing - that's infor...

I agree with this. Even in more formal or consequential situations, such as engineering, it's true. One of the things we have to understand is the con...

Agreed, but maybe it's more complicated than that. Pinker and Chomsky think that grammar is inborn. If children learn a pidgin - a minimally grammatic...

Is the Queen visiting, or are you just happy to see me?

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. I'll try to make clear what makes sense to me. I'm with Hume, at least as I understand him based very lim...

I looked at the first post in your new thread. I'm not sure exactly how to deal with things that should be true, that we are obligated to think of as ...

I agree.

I've looked at 23 definitions, examples, and descriptions of synthetic a priori knowledge. People seem to be really confused about what it means, even...

Is this background mental processing the same thing as intuition? It certainly isn't reason as that is usually described, although I think most of wha...

Baby ? Neonate. I don't know if neonates know anything. They do stuff. Do you have to know stuff to do stuff? That question has come up a couple of ti...

As I said, I'm not ready to have this argument.

I believe what you've written is not true, but I don't know enough to make an effective argument..

I didn't say anything about infinity. I said that, perhaps, the universe has always been here and always will be. I think that way of seeing things an...

Nunh unh. You should look it up.

If someone says you don't understand, that is not an ad hominem argument. It's not even an insult.

I have no problem conceiving, maybe imagining is a better word, that the universe, however you define it, has always been here and always will be. Tha...

Thank you for the book, but all the words are spelled wrong. I can't even figure out what they say.

Does this have something to do with Tucker Carlson tanning his scrotum?

It is my understanding that mechanisms of genetic change other than random mutations have been identified. That doesn't mean there isn't evidence of e...

They are aware of quantities of things.

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What I wrote and what you wrote don't seem to me to be the same thing.

The example I gave previously is causality. Some people believe that all events have causes and they know this as an a priori truth.

The purpose of this thread is to thrash this out among ourselves. I'm doing the best I can to be clear, but some vagueness and confusion is to be expe...

We're not getting anywhere with this. You and I are talking about different things with the same words.

That's design, not a priori knowledge. Design is applying principles I've learned elsewhere to a new situation.

One of my favorite words is "erstwhile." Most people don't know what it means. I used it, incorrectly, for a long time before I looked it up. It means...

I think that's probably not true.

Do I agree with that?.....I guess I don't. From a pragmatic point of view, the purpose of knowledge is to direct how we take action. If that's true, y...

Quantity is number. You can't do most math without numbers. So, yes. That doesn't mean there aren't learned parts. I don't think all the types of know...

I don't really make much of a distinction between what we do in philosophy as opposed to what we do in life. In philosophy we try to be more careful. ...

That doesn't make sense to me.

I think maybe you're overusing the word "instinct." I've been using it in ways that might not be accurate too. I'm going to check. Here are some defin...

There seems to be disagreement about what kind of knowledge math is. As I noted in a previous post, there are studies that show that very young childr...

I've always thought of it as a process, like a checklist. It's true - check. It's justified - check. I believe it - check. Ding, ding, ding - It's kno...

You can't talk epistemology without talking intuition, no matter what anyone says.

It's instinct, so I guess, yes, that is analytic a priori knowledge. Maybe not the impulse to fly south but at least the knowledge of how to get where...

This is getting silly. Are you saying the only way I could have an original idea is a priori? I can't take things I've learned and put them together i...

I remember you and me being on the same side of this argument in previous threads. I find it hard to understand how people can believe they know most ...

This is an oversimplified story, a cartoon, but I'm sure people saw trees fallen across streams before we were homo sapiens.

Whatever Kant thought, I agree the bachelor example is analytic, but I'm not sure about math. Perhaps it's both.