Friday, 28 December 2012

Hume's Fork

Empiricists argue that everything that exists and occurs is justified only by sense experience.

Hume claims that everything we know falls into 2 categories..

Relations of ideas - analytic knowledge and necessary truths can be verified a priori.
Matters of fact - synthetic knowledge and contingent truths must be verified a posteriori.

Can a person learn that fire burns skin a priori?

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