17. Externalism and A Priori Knowledge of Empricial Facts

Author: Brewer, Bill

Source: New Essays on the A Priori, October 2000 , pp. 415-433(19)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

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Abstract:

Bill Brewer explores a solution to a reductio ad absurdum argument template, one instance of which has the conclusion that we can know the proposition ‘someone has interacted with water’ a priori. Brewer holds that empirical knowledge of water is required for a thinker to possess the concept ‘water’ in the first place, so this knowledge cannot be said to be derived a priori by means of the argument.

Keywords: a priori knowledge; Bill Brewer; externalism; empirical knowledge; Reductio ad absurdum

Document Type: Research article

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