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Book 1998

In Defense of Pure Reason

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Published
1998
  • Rationalism
  • A priori

As explained in the previous chapter, the moderate empiricist position on a priori knowledge holds that while such knowledge genuinely exists and has occasional importance in its own distinctive way, it is nonetheless merely analytic in character - that is, very roughly, merely a product of human concepts, meanings, definitions, or linguistic conventions.