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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
I have a difficult time understanding a priori knowledge, could you provide some more examples? I agree it exists, if nothing else because of things like instinct, but have a hard time processing it academically
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Konrad Lorenz pointed out that Kant’s a-priori are evolutionary a-posteriori. “we didn’t learn it, but our ancestors did”
“Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.”
―Willard Van Orman Quine