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| A priori: something that we can know without prior (empirical) investigation. Is the inventory of a priori certainties purely logical? Is a priori knowledge always necessary?_____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Logic Texts on A priori - Dictionary of Arguments
Read III 140 f Apriori/Read: e.g., original meter: at least at one time, a meter was defined by reference to this original meter. Therefore, we could know a priori that the original meter was one meter long. Nonetheless, it could have been longer or shorter. "The original meter is a meter long" is only contingently true, but a priori recognizable. The separation between the necessary and the a priori: surprising consequence: every a priori statement is equivalent with a contingent statement! Proof: III 142: equal truth values provide equivalence) Read: ambiguous: a priori statements can all be contingent or necessary! >necessary a posteriori. Distinction with a rigid designator for truth value: not "the truth value of A" but "the actual truth value of A". - Truth is not a property. >Rigidity._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Logic Texts Me I Albert Menne Folgerichtig Denken Darmstadt 1988 HH II Hoyningen-Huene Formale Logik, Stuttgart 1998 Re III Stephen Read Philosophie der Logik Hamburg 1997 Sal IV Wesley C. Salmon Logic, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1973 - German: Logik Stuttgart 1983 Sai V R.M.Sainsbury Paradoxes, Cambridge/New York/Melbourne 1995 - German: Paradoxien Stuttgart 2001 Re III St. Read Thinking About Logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic. 1995 Oxford University Press German Edition: Philosophie der Logik Hamburg 1997 |
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