A priori knowledge : toward a phenomenological explanation /

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Author / Creator:Piazza, Tommaso, 1972-
Imprint:Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 193 pages)
Language:English
Series:Phenomenology & mind ; Bd. 10
Phenomenology & mind ; Bd. 10.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201438
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ISBN:9783110325645
3110325640
3110325039
9783110325034
9783937202921
3937202927
9783110325034
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193).
Summary:The book sets out to analyze the notion of a priori justification and of a priori knowledge. The most influential explanations of the a priori within the contemporary analytic tradition are analyzed. It is shown that the theories which group around the notion of implicit definition ultimately entail that the propositions which can be known a priori are to be analyzed along conventionalist lines. It is argued that the notion of objective a priori knowledge requires a commitment to the existence of a faculty which is the source of and justifies that kind of knowledge. The existence and functioni.
Other form:Print version: Piazza, Tommaso, 1972- Priori knowledge. Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2007