In Defense of Pure Reason
Subtitle: A Rationalist Account of A Priori Justification (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521592369
Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Rationalism; Logic; Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy / Epistemology; Philosophy / Logic; Justification (Theory of knowl; A priori; Justification (Theory of knowledge)
First sentence: 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.