An analysis of the a priori and a posteriori |
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Authors: | Jeremy Fantl |
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Institution: | 1. Expository Writing, Harvard University, 8 Prescott Street, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Abstract: | I present and defend a unified, non-reductive analysis of the a priori and a posteriori. It is a mistake to remove all epistemic conditions from the analysis of the a priori (as, for example, Alvin Goldman has recently suggested doing). We can keep epistemic conditions (like unrevisability) in the analysis as long as we insist that a priori and a posteriori justification admit of degrees. I recommend making the degree to which a belief’s justification is a priori or a posteriori solely dependent on the revisability relations that obtain among the faculties that deliver the belief and all other faculties. |
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